Uh oh, Chughtai Lab got political and dirty
Unfortunately, the political fever has fully permeated into the social fabric of our society. This eventually leads to the politicization of several things which are required to strictly stay away from the political partisanship. Here’s a recent example of a medical laboratory which allowed the political biases to get amalgamated with their profession and this all led to some serious consequences.
One of the most prestigious medical laboratories in Pakistan, Chughtai lab, displayed the online medical report of Nawaz Sharif with a message
The statement read something like this, ” Please return Pakistan’s money and freely live anywhere.”
Here’s an image of it:
Later, the heading on the report changed to “Mje anday vala burger #majboorpm.”
Here’s another image of it:
This entire thing naturally angered people who accused the lab of using malicious practices
Shame on you @ChughtaiLab. Should have left your dirty political biases out of the noble profession of medicine. Professional unethicality at its best. #BoycottChughtaiLab pic.twitter.com/PPPsQad6ur
— Ali Dar (@alimdar82) March 23, 2019
They asserted that this act was highly unethical and was extremely unprofessional
How dare you to do that @OmarChughtai
This is the height of non professionalism…
Low life people#BoycottChughtaiLab#BoycottChughtaiLab— میں بھی نواز ہوں (@ahsanabbasi928) March 23, 2019
It can’t be worse than this ..
This is extremely derogatory, unethical, unprofessional of highest order & deplorable.
The @ChughtaiLab & @OmarChughtai should apologise unconditionally to Honourable PM #NawazSharif, his family & their millions of supporters.#BoycottChughtaiLab— Dr. Adnan Khan (@Dr_Khan) March 23, 2019
#BoycottChughtaiLab
They are totally unprofessional, inhumane piece of shit totally unsuitable for a serious profession of health. https://t.co/cEwDpRKX4f— Mansoor (@anaulhaq) March 23, 2019
Everyone was ready to boycott the lab since they believed that they had politicized the noble profession
The trend became the number one trend on Twitter.
My mother always preferred @ChughtaiLab for her tests so do other family members just called them and asked to switch to Agha Khan.
No business for those bastards who are poloticising their profession. #BoycottChughtaiLab— Loki – 🇵🇰 (@LostMischievous) March 23, 2019
People urged higher authorities to take serious action against the lab owners for tampering someone’s results, posting personal messages on medical results and being political
This is unacceptable of making fun by writing a political slogan on blood report of three time elected prime minister of Pakistan by some private local lab.@ChughtaiLab should apologize & take serious action against their politicize worker or ready for #BoycottChughtaiLab
— Aqib Hassan (@aqbh5) March 23, 2019
Nawaz Sharif supporters went on to say that they will make sure that the lab faces some serious consequences
We have in the past brought down #Careem and #Ufone to their knees for ridiculing Nawaz Sharif. Chugtai or Chutiya Lab is just a speck of dog shit that sticks to your shoes, these folks would regret the day they tried to pull this stunt on.@ChughtaiLab #BoycottChughtaiLab
— یہ جو نامعلوم ہیں..یہ ہمیں معلوم ہیں (@adnan73_siddiqi) March 23, 2019
How dare they to insult a leader of one of the biggest party, will not b excused #BoycottChughtaiLab
— shahid (@shahadiqbal1) March 23, 2019
The lab tweeted an apology by stating that someone tampered the online reports
We are very sorry that the online profile was changed with inappropriate remarks on our server. We respect all of our patients. We will be working with FIA to identify the individuals who tampered with the records.
— Chughtai Lab – Official (@ChughtaiLab) March 23, 2019
Using patient ID information, online reports, previous reports can be accessed. Patient address and other profile information can also be changed. In today's episode, someone has accessed the patient's profile and edited the address field.
— Chughtai Lab – Official (@ChughtaiLab) March 23, 2019
It was stated that the privacy of the lab reports of patients is important and this is why it is advised to NOT share the photos of reports on social media
Privacy of our patients lab reports is important to us. Patient results can be accessed on our servers by using patient ID information that is printed on their lab reports. That is why photos of lab reports should not be shared on social media.
— Chughtai Lab – Official (@ChughtaiLab) March 23, 2019
Moreover, they denied affiliation with any political party and said that the online access to patient’s report has been blocked to prevent any further tampering
All of our patients are respectable to us, and we are not affiliated with any political party. We have blocked online access to the patient's lab reports to prevent any further tampering with the patient's online profile.
— Chughtai Lab – Official (@ChughtaiLab) March 23, 2019
People weren’t ready to accept the apology and demanded strict action to be taken against the culprits
so now u re admitting that the record on your servers were edited. how can we be sure that the lab test report that was issued from your notorious lab is authentic? you lied to us initially, we REJECT your report and apology!#BoycottChughtaiLab
— عالمگیر خان مشوانی (@ipakistanee) March 23, 2019
so called sorry rejected. there must be a punishment for the persons involved in breaching professional code of ethics and the trust of the patients.
— چودھری وسیم عظمت (@WaseemAzmet) March 23, 2019
They even accused the lab of allowing the culprits to work right under their nose
Not so easy to escape …
Culprits are within your system & under the nose of office holders…#BycottChughtaiLab— Faisal Rao (@faisalnaumanrao) March 23, 2019
Anyone who did it definitely works there. Or you have to let people know if it was a hack. Means patient data is not safe with you.
— Ahmad Waqass Goraya (@AWGoraya) March 23, 2019
A few people pointed out that the lab director is a PTI supporter and he might be involved in all this
Ultimate reason to #BoycottChughtaiLab
The Lab Director is himself a PTI Youthiya and Nawaz Sharif hater.
Maybe he himself put the disgusting political remarks on Nawaz Sharif's reports. pic.twitter.com/hZo4dOwYPw— Muhandis (@TheMuhandiss) March 23, 2019
The lab director responded by asserting that his anti-Nawaz tweets are old and have said that it was just a political discussion
He even apologized for those remarks.
People have pointed out some of my old tweets in which I gave negative and inappropriate remarks on Mian Nawaz Sharif. Political discussion is strength of democracy, but there is no need for personal negative remarks. I am sorry for these tweets.
— Dr Omar Chughtai (@OmarChughtai) March 23, 2019
People rejected the apology by asking the authorities to register a case of criminal negligence against the lab director
You are a disgrace to our profession.
You should be awarded “professional death sentence” by PMDC for violating the rules regarding d privacy of the patients.
Case should be registered against you for criminal negligence.#BoycottChughtaiLab #BoycottChugtaiLab— Dr.Sara Kashmiri (@immorternal1) March 23, 2019
Apology #REJECTED
— Mona Khan (@monakhan1947) March 23, 2019
#BoycottChughtaiLab
Shame On yOu Omar chughtai👎 https://t.co/NEEXn2qMOd— Ⓥɩ¢ƙƴ🇵🇰 (@waqar_patwari) March 23, 2019
Things have escalated really quickly, people are not accepting the apology by the lab officials. They are adamant to get the culprits punished. Moreover, the politicization of this noble profession should be condemned and strict action should be taken against the culprits to ensure that no such issues occur in the future.