Murtaza Bhutto

Q: Are you related to any one who was involved in the incident?
A: My real sister's husband, Ashiq Hussain Jatoi. I knew his driver and I don't
recall anybody else other than Mir Murtaza Bhutto.
Q: When did you first come to know about the incident?
A: At about 9:30 pm, my servant informed me about an emergency at the
hospital and that Mir Murtaza was brought to the hospital. I immediately
rushed to the hospital and informed the staff that all the needful be done
about the medico-legal aid as our hospital is not allowed to take such cases.
When I reached the hospital from Zam Zama Boulevard, I was stopped by the
police and was not allowed to go to the hospital. I then turned back and
reached the hospital from the other side and there, too, even at a point I was
not allowed to go, but it took a lot of time to convince them that I was doctor.
I went to the second floor of the hospital where the ICU is located where
Murtaza was lying critically wounded with extensive bleeding from nose and
mouth?
Q: What did you see then?
A: I saw him in a very restless position struggling to breathe. He was
unconscious and I was definite about it. Blood was gushing out from nose
and mouth. Through the gauze blood was coming out which was held on his
neck by a hospital staffer. A junior doctor was holding an oxygen mask on his
nose and mouth but there was difficulty in placing the mask for breathing,
because of his restlessness.
The attendants were restraining his right hand so that the mask could remain
in its position. After a couple of minutes, there was a cardiac arrest and the
ECG showed a flat line. We tried to restore the oxygen from mouth or nose
and to insert endotracheal tube which also failed because of the bleeding and
his restlessness. At that time senior surgeons, Dr Ibrahim Soorma, of Mideast;
Prof Haleem Kazi and surgeon Mushtaq, from AKUH, and Mumtaz Mehar,
from JPMC, and surgeon Akhtar, from NICVD, had arrived and joined the
team.
Q: Was your hospital entitled to receive medico-legal cases?
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