Woman airlifted from Mianwali as Lahore hospital suspends four

A woman was flown from Mianwali to Lahore General Hospital in an air ambulance, Dawn reported on Sunday.

The report gave no name, age or medical condition for the patient and did not say why she was taken to Lahore rather than treated in Mianwali. It also did not identify the operator of the aircraft, say who requested the flight, or state who paid for it.

UrduPoint reported that Lahore General Hospital suspended four officials over negligence. Its report did not say what the negligence involved, when the suspensions were ordered, or whether the action was connected to the patient brought from Mianwali. The four officials were not named and their departments were not given.

Neither outlet quoted a hospital spokesperson, an officer of the Punjab health department or a provincial minister on either the transfer or the suspensions.

Neither report said whether the woman had been under treatment at a hospital in Mianwali before the flight or was taken from elsewhere in the district, and neither said which ward she was brought to in Lahore or whether she was admitted.

Lahore General Hospital is a government hospital in Lahore, the capital of Punjab. Mianwali is a district in the northwest of the same province.

No further detail of the flight, including the point in Mianwali district from which the woman left, was published by either outlet.