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However, due to the strike, the emergency ward of the hospital remained closed, leaving hundreds of patients with no option but to throng Benazir Bhutto Hospital, causing problems not only for doctors but nursing staff as well.

According to the focal person for the hospital Dr Burhan Mustafa, the director of the emergency ward could not comment on the condition in which he was brought to the hospital.

Local news channel reported that the gunman entered the hospital premises wearing a policeman's uniform and opened fire in the emergency ward of the hospital, killing two people.

According to police, the gunman entered the hospital premises wearing police uniform and opened fire in the emergency ward of the hospital, killing two people.

Report said that roof of the emergency ward had been damaged and concerned authorities did not repair it as result during the intermittent rainfall roof of the above ward collapsed, however no employee or citizen was injured.

The incident took place at Lok Nayak Hospital where a duty doctor posted at the emergency ward was physically assaulted by a patient's attendants.

Ramesh Kumar, 20 years old resident of Tando Allahyar district, was brought in critical condition to LUH's emergency ward.

Dr Khawaja added that patients with mild conditions visit the Pulmonology Department while serious patients visit the emergency ward. He informed that during the current month, so far 500 pollen allergy patients visited the hospital with different complications.

He added that service delivery is now faster and patient classification and diagnosis are more accurate at the emergency ward, which receives a new patient every 23 seconds.

The start of winter normally sees a large increase in the number of children being taken to accident and emergency wards with chest infections and other winter bugs.

Instead of shifting patients to wards, we have added 40 to 50 more beds to the emergency ward where after being provided better treatment the patients are discharged.