Wasim Akram has requested a goverment inquiry 'at the highest level' following the sudden death of his wife and the events that led to it, Pakistan's Sports Minister Pir Aftab Shah Jilani has revealed to the Press Trust of India.
Huma Akram died in a Chennai hospital on Sunday following multiple organ failure. She was 42.
She was admitted to the hospital on Oct 20 in an emergency situation, suffering from a fever. The air ambulance carrying her from Lahore to Singapore had stopped in Chennai for refuelling when her condition worsened.
Wasim chose to fly his wife to Singapore for treatment as he was not satisfied with the care provided to her in Lahore.
‘I went to meet Wasim today at his residence in Lahore to offer my condolences on the sad death of his wife,’ he said.
‘During our meeting Wasim conveyed to me that he was neither happy nor satisfied with the medical care or attention provided to his wife by doctors at the national hospital and private hospitals in Lahore.
‘Wasim asked me to use all government level channels to hold an inquiry to find out if the medical attention to his wife was adequate,’ he added.
Doctors in Lahore where Huma was being treated have denied any negligence and have in fact claimed she was flown abroad 'against doctors advice.'
‘A panel of 10 senior doctors of three private hospitals of Lahore were not in favour of taking Huma abroad (Singapore) keeping in view her serious condition,’ one of her physicians told the Dawn on Monday.
‘Heart and kidney complications arose while she was being flown. She had to be taken to the hospital in Chennai when the plane stopped there for refuelling.’
The physician at the Lahore hospital said that after undergoing dental treatment in Karachi in September last, she had developed throat infection and had dry cough.
She received the treatment and in the first week of October her condition was diagnosed with having developed acute renal failure and increase in her white cell count, he said.
The doctor added that other complications Huma developed during the period reportedly were severe infection of kidney with acute tubular necrosis, vasculitis (inflammation of blood vessels), and pulmonary hypertension (high pressure in blood vessels of lungs).
‘She was improving clinically when Wasim Akram decided to shift her to Singapore for better treatment,’ the physician said and added that Akram told one of the doctors that he was under ‘immense pressure’ from his in-laws to get her treated abroad.
Another doctor who examined Huma told this reporter that there was ‘some confusion’ in her diagnosis and this could be one of the reasons behind shifting her abroad.
Dr Munidar Rao of Apollo Hospital (Chennai) told a private channel on Monday that when Huma was brought to the hospital she was in septic shock leading to multiple organ failure and doctors could not save her.
‘I failed to understand as to why she was being shifted to Singapore in such a critical condition,’ he said.
Allama Iqbal Medical College Principal Dr Javed Akram has also questioned the move saying that there was no particular surgery, procedure, or medicine which was available in Singapore and not in Lahore in the case of Ms Huma.
Huma Akram died in a Chennai hospital on Sunday following multiple organ failure. She was 42.
She was admitted to the hospital on Oct 20 in an emergency situation, suffering from a fever. The air ambulance carrying her from Lahore to Singapore had stopped in Chennai for refuelling when her condition worsened.
Wasim chose to fly his wife to Singapore for treatment as he was not satisfied with the care provided to her in Lahore.
‘I went to meet Wasim today at his residence in Lahore to offer my condolences on the sad death of his wife,’ he said.
‘During our meeting Wasim conveyed to me that he was neither happy nor satisfied with the medical care or attention provided to his wife by doctors at the national hospital and private hospitals in Lahore.
‘Wasim asked me to use all government level channels to hold an inquiry to find out if the medical attention to his wife was adequate,’ he added.
Doctors in Lahore where Huma was being treated have denied any negligence and have in fact claimed she was flown abroad 'against doctors advice.'
‘A panel of 10 senior doctors of three private hospitals of Lahore were not in favour of taking Huma abroad (Singapore) keeping in view her serious condition,’ one of her physicians told the Dawn on Monday.
‘Heart and kidney complications arose while she was being flown. She had to be taken to the hospital in Chennai when the plane stopped there for refuelling.’
The physician at the Lahore hospital said that after undergoing dental treatment in Karachi in September last, she had developed throat infection and had dry cough.
She received the treatment and in the first week of October her condition was diagnosed with having developed acute renal failure and increase in her white cell count, he said.
The doctor added that other complications Huma developed during the period reportedly were severe infection of kidney with acute tubular necrosis, vasculitis (inflammation of blood vessels), and pulmonary hypertension (high pressure in blood vessels of lungs).
‘She was improving clinically when Wasim Akram decided to shift her to Singapore for better treatment,’ the physician said and added that Akram told one of the doctors that he was under ‘immense pressure’ from his in-laws to get her treated abroad.
Another doctor who examined Huma told this reporter that there was ‘some confusion’ in her diagnosis and this could be one of the reasons behind shifting her abroad.
Dr Munidar Rao of Apollo Hospital (Chennai) told a private channel on Monday that when Huma was brought to the hospital she was in septic shock leading to multiple organ failure and doctors could not save her.
‘I failed to understand as to why she was being shifted to Singapore in such a critical condition,’ he said.
Allama Iqbal Medical College Principal Dr Javed Akram has also questioned the move saying that there was no particular surgery, procedure, or medicine which was available in Singapore and not in Lahore in the case of Ms Huma.
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