Summary Three sanitary workers were referred to Hyderabad and then to Karachi hospitals for treatment
(Web Desk) – Fasting doctors of a government hospital in Umerkot fatally refused to treat a sanitary worker on Thursday branding him ‘unclean’, after he had fallen unconscious among four other workers while carrying out cleaning activities during scorching heat in the manhole on Chorr Road.
Reportedly, Irfan Masih, a 30-year-old worker was shifted to a government hospital among four sanitary men after they had fallen unconscious but he died hours later as the medics would not touch his body covered in sewage.
Other three workers namely, Faisal Masih, Shaukat Masih and Yaqoob Masih, were first referred to Hyderabad for treatment and then to the hospitals in Karachi.
The manhole on Chorr Road had earlier claimed lives of two workers in 2012. Krishan Gujrati and Nawaz Masih, both in their 30s, lost their lives in September 2012.
Bereaved family and the community staged a ten-hour long protest, keeping the body on a road that connected Umerkot to other parts of Sindh. Additional Deputy Commissioner, Subhash Chandar Sham assured the grieving protesters that a probe would bring the perpetrators to justice.
