ISLAMABAD: A 22-year old girl under treatment at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences was allegedly raped by a hospital...
ISLAMABAD: A 22-year old girl under treatment at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences was allegedly raped by a hospital staffer on Monday.
The staffer accused of the rape has been suspended and an inquiry is underway, a spokesman for PIMS said.
The girl was seeking treatment at the Intensive Care Unit for the last one month. She belonged to Swat, the spokesman added.
Taking notice of the incident, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif formed an inquiry team, headed by Col (retd) Saifuddin, which dismissed an initial medical report, calling PIMS administration’s decision of informing police with a considerable delay by two days a ‘criminal negligence.’
The team said a strict action will be taken against the culprits. It also ordered DNA and medical tests of the victim again.
Besides PM Nawaz’s probe team, police officials also termed the delay in reporting the incident as tantamount to assisting the culprit to escape and obliteration of evidence.