ISLAMABAD: The representative administration of a private hospital, National Medical Centre (NMC), has claimed on Thursday that the hospital did not refuse to treat Amal Umer but the 10-year-old’s parents kept insisting hospital let them shift the wounded child to another medical facility. A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar resumed the hearing of the Amal Umer case today. The deceased child’s parents, Umer and Beenish, were also present in the court. As the hearing commenced, an NMC representative claimed that the hospital was treating Amal but her parents wanted to shift her to another hospital. In response to this, Amal’s parents maintained their earlier stance that the hospital had refused to treat their wounded child. Also read Police arrest the suspect who robbed Amal’s family Offended with the hospital’s statement and declaring it a pack of lies the deceased child’s father stated: “The hospital administration insisted us (parents) to shift Amal to another hospital.” “The hospital even refused to borrow its staff and artificial respiration equipment,” Amal’s father apprised the court. Irked with the false claims of the hospital, Justice Nisar rebuked the NMC representative and said, “You are a doctor, why do you need to lie?” The apex court then ordered to form a committee headed by Justice Khilji Arif Hussain. The committee will include former Sindh inspector general AD Khawaja and a member of the district bar. Also read President Arif Alvi directs complete investigation in Amal case Moreover, it summoned a report on the matter within two weeks and adjourned the session until then. On August 13, Amal lost her life after being hit by a stray bullet during a police encounter in Karachi’s Akhtar Colony area. The bullet that hit Amal was from an AK-47 and was fired by a policeman attempting to kill a man, who had robbed the 10-year-old’s family a few minutes earlier as they waited at a traffic light to attend a concert on the eve of Independence Day.