Medical board to examine child paralysed by teacher’s torture

The provincial health department formed a 10-member special medical board comprising senior neurologists, ENT specialists, paediatricians and other experts from public and private hospitals Saturday to examine Muhammad Ahmed Hussain, a 13-year old student of the Larkana Cadet College, paralysed after a teacher tortured him.

The board will ascertain the causes of his injuries and recommend a proper course of treatment for the child within the country or abroad.

Hussain was reportedly subjected to brutal by a teacher at the Larkana Cadet College and he has not only lost his senses, but also become physically paralysed.

Formed on the directives of the chief minister, the board will be headed by Prof Junaid Ashraf, the head of the neurosurgery department at the Civil Hospital Karachi and Prof Jamal Raza, the Director of the National Institute of Child Health is its convener.

The board will examine the child at the Ward 23 ICU of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre on Monday at 11:30am and present its report to the health department.

Other members of the board include Prof Umer Farooq, the head of ENT department at the CHK, Prof Lal Rehman, the Prof of neurosurgery at the JPMC, Dr Muhammad Usman, the assistant professor of ENT at the JPMC, Dr Iqbal Ahmed Moghira and Dr Prem Chand of the Aga Khan University Hospital, Dr Jalil Qadir, the director CB Lab Karachi, and Prof Muhammad Hassan Shaikh and Dr Alam Ibrahim Siddiqui of the SMBBMU, Larkana.

Health secretary Usman Chachar said the medical board would present its report on the same day after examining the child so that treatment could be started immediately. The GOC Pannu Aqil has also ordered an inquiry into the torture case, some TV channels reported.