A woman died after an ex-security guard at a Pakistani hospital posed as a doctor and performed surgery on her, police said Monday.

Shameema Begum, aged 80, died on Sunday, two weeks after Muhammad Waheed Butt attempted to treat her back wound at a public hospital in the eastern city of Lahore.

“We can’t keep up with what every doctor and what everyone is doing at all times.

“It’s a large hospital,” explained an administrative official from Lahore’s Mayo Hospital, who did not want to be named.

He said it was unclear what type of surgery the imposter had performed in the operating theatre, where a qualified technician was also present.

Pakistan’s public hospitals, where patients are required to pay some money towards treatment, can often be inefficient and chaotic.

Begum’s family paid Butt for the operation, and two further home visits to dress her wound.

But when the bleeding and pain worsened, her family returned her to the hospital, where they discovered what had happened.

Her body is being kept for an autopsy to ascertain whether her death was a result of complications from the botched surgery.

“The guard has been charged and is in police custody,” Lahore police spokesman Ali Safdar told AFP.

“Butt had posed as a doctor and made home visits to other patients in the past also.”

Mayo Hospital staff said Butt was fired two years ago for trying to extort money from patients.

Earlier in May, a man was arrested for posing as a doctor at Lahore General Hospital and extorting money from patients in the surgical ward.

In 2016, it was revealed a woman posing to be a neurosurgeon conducted operations for eight months alongside qualified doctors at Lahore’s Services Hospital, the second-largest health facility in Pakistan.

https://dailytrust.com/hospital-patient-dies-after-security-guard-performs-surgery


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Everything in that write up reads like the summary of Nigerian health sector.

Choi....
Some of this aboki muslim sef eerh
O gaa oh

How come?

Omo this scam is on another level

Some of them are even better than some Nigerian doctors who always forget one thing or the other inside their patients after an operation

I don't understand Like seriously That security man is heartless

Strange Story Sounce So Strange, See Security man Serviceing As A Ductor, More Trubles That Will Never Finish.

I think the guy just wanted to fulfil a childhood ambition(at all cost).

He probably promised his old man that he was gonna "make him proud some day" by becoming a surgeon. Somehow. .. he ended up staying the hospital gate.

Unfortunately, this one stunt of his has sent an octogenarian to the great beyond.

On the positive side: He has lived out his "dreams"... he ought to be smiling right now.

On the flip side{the not-so-good part}: He has(probably/definitely) bought a not-so brand new apartment at the state maximum. Saying he's lost his job is rather pointless at this point in time.

On a second thought... he probably thought: 'hey, this an 80 year-old. She's already run her full course, so it might not be wrong to use her as a "guinea pig" to start off my non-existent medical career.'

Too many theories running through my head right now but I'll just leave it right here.