A few days back the President of Pakistan Pervaiz Musharraf graced our city to inaugurate the Expo Pakistan. Naturally a visit by him means all hell breaks loose, road blocks are placed around town resulting in massive traffic jams without even a second thought. The only and primary concern is to protect the life of the President and allow him to have a peaceful unhindered drive around town. The citizens can go to hell burning expenive fuel which continues to remain high despite fall in international prices, the economy can take a loss with so much wasted time, who cares as long as the President can sleep peacefully in bed.
On the day His Royal Highness graced our town an unfortunate 23 year old girl developed a case of appendicitis and was being rushed to JPMC in an ambulance, due to the inconsiderate blockage to protect Pervaiz Musharraf the entire Shahrae Fasial had a massive traffic jam and sadly the ambulance got stuck in the traffic jam, never to reach the hospital in time and the girl passed away due to a ruptured appendix.
Surprisignly this is not the first instance as reported by Dawn but similar instances were reported on Jan 6th and 7th where a few other unfortunate people were pronounced dead at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, the doctors claimed that their lives could have been saved had there not been a traffic jam and maybe they could have reached the hosptial in timer.
I personally feel something needs to be done to create an awareness for this problem, the city of Karachi can suffer for time and money when a VVIP is in town but if it means at the loss of on innocent life, it is pushing the limits.
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4 responses to “Protocol That Kills”
Really something should be done by the government to control the traffic in big cities as alot of time,money & lives are lost if someone is rushing to the Hospital.
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Someone ought to write to the President himself, on his “personal” website or something!
This is our Topsy-Turvy Tragedy that we provide massive protection to VVIP’s=vice vise illusion person’s) and ignore common folks and their problems.why don’t these VVip’s travel from helicopter and directly land on desire building roof, so there would be less chance of risk to their lives and common folks who are already agies of traffic condition will get more release from harassment occur during VVIP’s visit in the city…
Dear VVIPs,
Don’t u ppl think that other ppls life is also as important as urs?
Why dont u ppl use air craft instead of creating problems for common ppl like us.. use some common sense.