Four-year-old boy dies upon denial of emergency treatment.

SUKKUR -- A four-year-old boy brought to the Thull Taluka Hospital for emergency treatment of breathing problem died as some of the doctors that were supposed to be on duty were not present there and some others appeared in no mood to attend to any patient.

Attaullah Dashti, a resident of Mohammad Panah Dashti village of Thull taluka in Jacobabad, took his four-year-old son, Safiullah, whose condition had turned serious due to breathing problem, to hospital on Thursday night. He and his accompanying relatives were told that no doctor was available at the moment.

The desperate father, after failing to persuade the hospital staff to call up one of the 30 doctors supposed to be present in hospital, even went to the residences of some duty doctors but they appeared in no mood to attend to a patient. Mr Dashti said his son needed to be put on oxygen on an emergency basis but the hospital staff did not do that for want of a doctor's advice.

He said finding no...