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Tribunal: Why didn't you ask your hospital to shift Mir Murtaza to other
hospital where better facilities are available to handle such cases ?
Dr Jatoi: If we had refused, we would have been in greater problem, because
in the Saudi student's case, we were already warned not to refuse admission,
but to give the patients first aid and then shift them to other hospital when
the condition of the patients became stable. We lost our contract for treatment
of personnel from the Saudi consulate because of the student's case.
Q: Is your hospital capable of handling such cases?
A: It is better than JPMC and CHK.
Q: You had seen the injuries and you also stated that the bullet had come
from head and exited from the neck. Can you inform the tribunal, at what
range the bullet had been fired?
A: It is not my expertise to comment on that.
Q: The efforts made at the hospital took a sufficiently long time till Murtaza
was dead. Did you not consider shifting him to JPMC during that period ?
A: Murtaza's condition was critical. In such cases, it is always our attempt to
bring the condition to such a level that the patient is able to undertake the
journey and not pass away on the way. Murtaza's condition was such that he
could not have survived the journey.
Q: How much time was lost between the occurrence of the injury and his
arrival in the hospital?
A: A lot of blood was lost. I don't want to pretend because I have already read
the account about the time lost, but his condition was very critical.
Q: At what time the body was removed from the hospital and to which place?
A: Initially, effort was made to save Murtaza's life, and my next priority was
to find out about the condition of Ashiq Jatoi. I don't know at what time Mir
Murtaza was shifted from the hospital.
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