Mob of Pakistani Lawyers Attacks Hospital, Three Die As A Result

Yes you did just read that headline ….

NPR reports that at least three patients died on Wednesday after hundreds of lawyers besieged a cardiac hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, for hours — attacking doctors, guards and other staff and setting several vehicles ablaze, officials said.

The origins of the clash are not entirely clear, but it seems to stem from a scuffle last month between doctors and a lawyer that was captured on surveillance video. Since then, lawyers have been demanding some kind of action against the doctors, and on Wednesday that culminated in the brutal attack.

Reuters reported, “lawyers were particularly angry about the doctors disseminating a mobile phone video on social media showing the beating” of a lawyer by doctors after he refused to wait in line.

“Three patients, including an elderly woman, died after doctors failed to provide them timely treatment and remained engaged in averting the assault,” Punjab Health Minister Yasmeen Rashid said at a televised news conference, AFP reported.

“Due to the thrashing of doctors going on, the staff fled the scene,” Rashid said, adding that it was their abandonment that led to the fatalities.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/787109476/in-pakistan-angry-mob-of-lawyers-attack-hospital-causing-deaths-of-3-patients