Darul Sehat Hospital (DSH) Executive Director Dr Shahzad Alam resigned from his post on Sunday. The health facility’s board of directors accepted his resignation immediately, according to a statement issued by the hospital.
The participants of the meeting reviewed with the “deepest concern, compassion and empathy” the incident involving wrong medication to nine-month-old Nishwa and vowed to extend their fullest support for the wellbeing of the baby.
The meeting was briefed on the progress of a probe into the incident, which it maintained occurred because of “human negligence of a qualified paramedic”.
The statement said the private hospital had been treating more than 2,000 patients a day for the last 24 years and millions of patients had benefited from the correct diagnosis and cure over the last two decades.
“Each and every employee of the DSH, including the management, is deeply saddened for baby Nishwa. Regretfully, due to a human error in this particular case, the reputation of the entire organisation and the healthcare profession is being challenged.”
“We, as an educated society, should understand the fact (sic) of medical negligence that can happen in any healthcare organisation but the way media is portraying is regretful and is creating bad impression of the organisation and its ethical and moral values, and should be discouraged at all the forums.”
During its previous meeting, the board had decided to dismiss two of its staff members who had tended to the child on that day. The authorities had also decided to put the staff members who had indirectly dealt with the case under observation.
Meanwhile, the police arrested two employees of the DSH in the case.
According to police, the hospital’s admin in-charge Shehzad and nurses’ in-charge Atif Javed were arrested.
A police official said the arrested men would be presented before a court on Monday to obtain their physical remand for further probe.
The police said raids are being conducted to arrest the four absconding accused, as the hospital owner had been served another notice following his nomination in the case.