KARACHI – Dr Azam Ali, a Karachi-based ophthalmologist, says he wastortured by the husband of a patient named Shazia Ishtiaq who got a scratchin the eye during the ocular surgery at Liaqat Hospital of the provincialcapital.
The case came to light through social media posts which include documentsin which the surgeon has approached the law enforcement officials bynarrating the entire ordeal he faced from one “Major Khizar”.
In the viral post, Dr Azam shows injuries that he sustained including facecuts due to punches along with other multiple wound marks on differentparts of the body.
Writing the official complaint to the SHO New Town, he mentioned that thewife of Major Khizar underwent surgery and got a scratch in the eye formoving eyelid during the surgical procedure.
The scratch was minor in nature and will take some hours to repair whilethe husband hurled abuses and later subjected him to severe physicalassault, he added.
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The doctor also wrote a complaint to Station Commander HeadquartersKarachi, cc’d to Commander V Corps against the officer’s misbehaviour.
Following the event, a large number of social media users expressed theiranger and frustration over the incident.
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