Woman dies after being operated on by security guard posing as a surgeon

Woman died last Sunday after ex-security guard at Pakistani hospital pretend to be a doctor and perform surgery.

Begum Shameema, 80, died two weeks later Muhammad Waheed Buttocks will try to treat his back injury at a public hospital in Lahore, in the east.

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“We can’t control what all the doctors and the like are doing all the time.. It’s a very large hospital ”, explained an administrative official of the Lahore Mayo Hospital, who did not want to be identified.

He explained that it was not clear what type of surgery the impostor performed in the operating room, where a trained technician was also present.

Pakistani public hospitals, where patients have to pay money for treatment, are often ineffective and chaotic.

Begum’s family reportedly paid Butt for the operation and for two more home visits to heal his wound. But when the bleeding and pain got worse, her family took her back to the hospital, where they found out what had happened.

His body is being kept for an autopsy to determine if his death was the result of complications from the failure of the operation.

“The guard has been charged and is in custody. He had passed himself off as a doctor and in the past he had also visited other patients, ”said Lahore police spokesman Ali Safdar.

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Staff at Mayo Hospital explained that Butt was fired two years ago from his job as a guard for trying to extort money from patients.

In early May, another man was arrested for posing as a doctor at Lahore General Hospital and for extorting money from patients in the operating room.

And in 2016, it was revealed that a woman posing as a neurosurgeon operated for eight months with qualified doctors at Lahore Service Hospital, Pakistan’s second largest healthcare facility.

Meanwhile, authorities across the country have started to reopen some of the services and spaces that had been closed due to restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus, such as schools.

The number of new cases has declined in recent days, falling below 4% last week, after the percentage of positive tests performed was above 10% in April and May. In all, more than 934,000 people have contracted the disease, including 21,323 dead.

With information from AFP.