Most attack victims treated at CMH;LRH receives seven victims

PESHAWAR: Though most victims of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) airbase attack were taken to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), an emergency was declared at the Lady Reading Hospital where a body and seven injured people were shifted there soon after the rescue operation was launched.
Soon after the attack on the airbase, all the staff members, including doctors, paramedics and nurses were called forthwith to the hospital to better handle the trauma.
A spokesman for the LRH also remained in touch with print and electronic media and provided them timely information about the number of victims, their profession and the nature of injuries they had suffered during the attack. The LRH is having a spacious Accident and Emergency Department (A&ED), where victims of almost all the major accidents, bomb explosions and suicide bombings are shifted from all over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and its adjoining tribal areas. One body and seven injured people were initially shifted to the LRH when the Rescue 1122 launched the rescue operation. The police and other law-enforcement agencies had taken foolproof security measures within and outside of the hospital. The injured were identified as Mohammad Ikram, 40, from Shabqadar area; Mehroz, 28, of Bahawalpur; Nizam Shah, 35, of Swabi district, Rafiullah, 27, of Dera Ismail Khan; Rizwan, 25, of Narowal in Punjab; Shakirullah, 10, of Surezai Payan village near the PAF airbase; Mukaram, 25, of Bahadar Killay.
The hospital also received a body. According to hospital authorities, he had died of injuries before being shifted to the LRH. He belonged to the Pakistan Army and was identified as Tariq hailing from Azad Kashmir.
Out of the seven inured brought to the LRH, four were PAF employees, one each belonging to the Pakistan Army and FC and one civilian. One civilian was already discharged from the hospital after getting treated. The injured were later shifted to the CMH.