- Scholar submits utility to secretary well being, says DG Nursing.
- “She has been harassing me for six months,” says nursing pupil.
- Scholar hails from Gujranwala and was pursuing nursing in Lahore.
LAHORE: A primary-year nursing pupil at Fatima Jinnah Medical College survived an alleged suicide try and has referred to as on Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz to intervene in a case of harassment and character assassination by the establishment’s feminine principal.
Iman Fatima, a first-year pupil on the college’s Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, was saved by fellow nurses when she was reportedly trying to chop her jugular vein on Sunday.
Based on Director Basic Nursing Punjab, Tahira Sagheer, the coed’s alleged suicide try got here following the behaviour of the establishment’s principal, who would allegedly resort to abusive phrases, harassment, and character assassination.
Sagheer added that the coed — who hails from Gujranwala and was pursuing nursing within the Lahore school — had sought leaves from the prinicpal.
As per the DG Nursing, the coed has submitted an utility to the secretary well being for motion towards the principal, the listening to for which might be held at this time.
“Principal, pupil, and eye witness nurses have all been summoned on the subject of the case. If the allegations are confirmed true, motion might be taken,” mentioned Sagheer.
In the meantime, the coed alleged character assassination by the hands of the principal who used abusive phrases and harassed her.
“The principal behaves like this with each lady together with me,” she alleged, including that the faculty administration didn’t inform her mother and father about her damage and in addition didn’t enable them to fulfill her.
“I took this step after the principal humiliated me and defamed my character,” mentioned the coed. “She has been harassing me for six months.”
The incident involves gentle days after ongoing unrest throughout Punjab, significantly in Lahore, over rape allegations which went viral on social media platforms prompting college students to carry a number of demonstrations throughout numerous cities in current days.
Greater than two dozen individuals, together with 4 policemen, had been injured in violent protests in Lahore final week.
The turmoil finally warranted a robust response from CM Maryam who, whereas talking to the media on October 16, introduced a crackdown on these spreading faux information relating to the rape of a pupil.