Elderly woman dies after security guard performs surgery at Lahore's Mayo Hospital

[truthfollower]

Elderly woman dies after security guard performs surgery at Lahore's Mayo Hospital

AFPPublished June 7, 2021










Shameema Begum, aged 80, died on Sunday, two weeks after Muhammad Waheed Butt attempted to treat her back wound at the public hospital. Shutterstock

A woman died after a former security guard at Lahore's Mayo Hospital posed as a doctor and performed surgery on her, police said on Monday.
Shameema Begum, aged 80, died on Sunday, two weeks after Muhammad Waheed Butt attempted to treat her back wound at the public hospital.


“We can't keep up with what every doctor and what everyone is doing at all times. It's a large hospital,” explained an administrative official from the hospital, who did not want to be named.


He said it was unclear what type of surgery the imposter had performed in the operating theatre, where a qualified technician was also present.

Pakistan's public hospitals, where patients are required to pay some money towards treatment, can often be inefficient and chaotic.
Begum's family paid Butt for the operation, and two further home visits to dress her wound.
But when the bleeding and pain worsened, her family returned her to the hospital, where they discovered what had happened.
Her body is being kept for an autopsy to ascertain whether her death was a result of complications from the botched surgery.
“The guard has been charged and is in police custody,” Lahore police spokesman Ali Safdar told AFP.
“Butt had posed as a doctor and made home visits to other patients in the past also.”
Mayo Hospital staff said Butt was fired two years ago for trying to extort money from patients.
Earlier in May, a man was arrested for posing as a doctor at Lahore General Hospital and extorting money from patients in the surgical ward.
In 2016, it was revealed that a woman posing to be a neurosurgeon conducted operations for eight months alongside qualified doctors at Lahore's Services Hospital, the second-largest health facility in Pakistan.

Elderly woman dies after security guard performs surgery at Lahore's Mayo Hospital

“Butt had posed as a doctor and made home visits to other patients in the past also," said police.

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[Asif Mayet]

Elderly woman dies after security guard performs surgery at Lahore's Mayo Hospital

AFPPublished June 7, 2021










Shameema Begum, aged 80, died on Sunday, two weeks after Muhammad Waheed Butt attempted to treat her back wound at the public hospital. Shutterstock

A woman died after a former security guard at Lahore's Mayo Hospital posed as a doctor and performed surgery on her, police said on Monday.
Shameema Begum, aged 80, died on Sunday, two weeks after Muhammad Waheed Butt attempted to treat her back wound at the public hospital.


“We can't keep up with what every doctor and what everyone is doing at all times. It's a large hospital,” explained an administrative official from the hospital, who did not want to be named.


He said it was unclear what type of surgery the imposter had performed in the operating theatre, where a qualified technician was also present.

Pakistan's public hospitals, where patients are required to pay some money towards treatment, can often be inefficient and chaotic.
Begum's family paid Butt for the operation, and two further home visits to dress her wound.
But when the bleeding and pain worsened, her family returned her to the hospital, where they discovered what had happened.
Her body is being kept for an autopsy to ascertain whether her death was a result of complications from the botched surgery.
“The guard has been charged and is in police custody,” Lahore police spokesman Ali Safdar told AFP.
“Butt had posed as a doctor and made home visits to other patients in the past also.”
Mayo Hospital staff said Butt was fired two years ago for trying to extort money from patients.
Earlier in May, a man was arrested for posing as a doctor at Lahore General Hospital and extorting money from patients in the surgical ward.
In 2016, it was revealed that a woman posing to be a neurosurgeon conducted operations for eight months alongside qualified doctors at Lahore's Services Hospital, the second-largest health facility in Pakistan.

Elderly woman dies after security guard performs surgery at Lahore's Mayo Hospital

“Butt had posed as a doctor and made home visits to other patients in the past also," said police.

www.dawn.com

Pakistan is a nation filled to the brim with nincompoops , sad really .

 

[mudas777]

Elderly woman dies after security guard performs surgery at Lahore's Mayo Hospital

AFPPublished June 7, 2021










Shameema Begum, aged 80, died on Sunday, two weeks after Muhammad Waheed Butt attempted to treat her back wound at the public hospital. Shutterstock

A woman died after a former security guard at Lahore's Mayo Hospital posed as a doctor and performed surgery on her, police said on Monday.
Shameema Begum, aged 80, died on Sunday, two weeks after Muhammad Waheed Butt attempted to treat her back wound at the public hospital.


“We can't keep up with what every doctor and what everyone is doing at all times. It's a large hospital,” explained an administrative official from the hospital, who did not want to be named.


He said it was unclear what type of surgery the imposter had performed in the operating theatre, where a qualified technician was also present.

Pakistan's public hospitals, where patients are required to pay some money towards treatment, can often be inefficient and chaotic.
Begum's family paid Butt for the operation, and two further home visits to dress her wound.
But when the bleeding and pain worsened, her family returned her to the hospital, where they discovered what had happened.
Her body is being kept for an autopsy to ascertain whether her death was a result of complications from the botched surgery.
“The guard has been charged and is in police custody,” Lahore police spokesman Ali Safdar told AFP.
“Butt had posed as a doctor and made home visits to other patients in the past also.”
Mayo Hospital staff said Butt was fired two years ago for trying to extort money from patients.
Earlier in May, a man was arrested for posing as a doctor at Lahore General Hospital and extorting money from patients in the surgical ward.
In 2016, it was revealed that a woman posing to be a neurosurgeon conducted operations for eight months alongside qualified doctors at Lahore's Services Hospital, the second-largest health facility in Pakistan.

Elderly woman dies after security guard performs surgery at Lahore's Mayo Hospital

“Butt had posed as a doctor and made home visits to other patients in the past also," said police.

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He is responsible for the death of the old lady and our justice system is so crap he will be out in few months anyway and some one will fill up a report that lady died with the natural causes. Where is justice in Pakistan even hospitals are not safe and just check the incompetent hospital admin excuse

“We can't keep up with what every doctor and what everyone is doing at all times. It's a large hospital,” explained an administrative official from the hospital, who did not want to be named.

Comments like this just shows the mindset of the admin, incompetent, insensitive and even poor with excuses. Where is the responsibility and where are the checks and balances and whose job is that.

 

[Saddam Hussein]

Shameema Begum is a common name? reminds me of the isis young girl

 

[alphapak]

We had idiots like Nawaz and Zardari posing as leaders, so its not a shock to
see a Security Gaurd posing as a doctor.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

He is responsible for the death of the old lady and our justice system is so crap he will be out in few months anyway and some one will fill up a report that lady died with the natural causes. Where is justice in Pakistan even hospitals are not safe and just check the incompetent hospital admin excuse

“We can't keep up with what every doctor and what everyone is doing at all times. It's a large hospital,” explained an administrative official from the hospital, who did not want to be named.

Comments like this just shows the mindset of the admin, incompetent, insensitive and even poor with excuses. Where is the responsibility and where are the checks and balances and whose job is that.

Between 2018-2019 over a 100 fake doctors were identified and removed from just Nishter hospital in multan. Administration in our hospitals is trash.

 

[mudas777]

Between 2018-2019 over a 100 fake doctors were identified and removed from just Nishter hospital in multan. Administration in our hospitals is trash.

Imposters are in every country and there are much bigger and busier hospitals then Mayo or Nishter so administration should be hanged with the culprits too. There are checks and balances and procedures to follow to work in the hospitals and in sensitive places and violators are dealt with the firm arm of the law. Country like ours where even law agencies and justice system can be bought and sold at will one looses the will to live and no one else to blame others then us.