KARACHI: The Sindh health department has sacked Dr Abdul Jabbar Memon, a medico-legal officer at Jinnah hospital, who has been accused of raping a trainee nurse on Tuesday.
The nurse was treated for head injuries after jumping from the first floor flat in the doctors’ colony allegedly to escape Memon. She has regained consciousness after surgery and according to JPMC’s Dr Seemin Jamali, is out of danger and can now recognise people. “She is responding to questions,” she told the media.
The case’s investigation officer, Rao Mubashir, said they had yet to record her statement. On Saturday, the police surgeon and special secretary for public health Captain Abdul Majid visited the nurse but were unable to get a statement either. Doctors said she may be able to give one in two days.
The nurse has blackeyes and can barely see from her swollen right eye. She is being kept in the surgical ICU at Jinnah hospital but visitors are limited. “Let me go home otherwise they will kill me,” she is reported to be repeatedly saying. Her mother keeps reassuring her that she is safe. “Who are they?” the nurse keeps asking when she sees paramedical staff standing around her. A doctor on duty said that the nurse is drifting in and out of consciousness. Professor Sattar Hashim, the neurosurgeon who operated on the nurse, told The Express Tribune that she was still disoriented and it would take about four to five days for her to give any statement.
Several political leaders and members of the government have visited her and ensured their photographs were taken.
The nurse’s parents hail from the Punjab but were living in Korangi No. 1. Her mother told The Express Tribune that someone had been calling the nurse with threats about one week back but she did not give her family any names. She had stopped going to work at the hospital. “She decided to return later,” her mother said. “She told us that her madam had assured her [she would be safe].” The day she went back to nursing school, the incident occured.
