LAHORE: At least four patients being treated at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) were died and Punjab Information Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan was manhandled after a violent protest by lawyers on the premises on Wednesday.
The under-treatment patients, stated to be in precarious condition, were left unattended by the hospital staff when the lawyers entered into the emergency ward of the facility. As a result, four of them breathed their last.
Police arrested over a dozen lawyers who also tried to kidnap the provincial information minister arrived at the hospital to settle the matter.
Sources said that the lawyers had protested against a video that was doing rounds on social media. In the said video, a doctor had leveled allegations against lawyers.
