Authorities in Pakistan have suspended a local doctor who was caught taking a cow home from market in an ambulance, officials said Monday.
“Dr Muneer Qadri was caught red handed. He was carrying a cow in an ambulance from Kunjah market to his residence in Tanda village,” the head of the local police station, Mohammad Akram, told AFP by telephone.
Qadri, head of a rural health centre in Tanda near the border with India, bought the animal at a nearby cattle market on Saturday. Police stopped his ambulance and found the animal inside, tied to a metal bar.
Health authorities have suspended Qadri and launched an investigation.
“This is (a) misuse of authority,” said Mohammad Muneer Ahmad, senior health officer of the nearby town of Gujrat.
“I have never heard (of) such thing happened (sic) in the past — an ambulance carrying (an) animal! We have suspended the doctor and the ambulance driver,” he told AFP.(AFP)
巴基斯坦官員週一表示,被人發現用救護車從市場載牛回家的當地醫生已遭有關當局停職。
當地警局局長穆罕默德•阿喀郎在電話中對法新社表示:「穆尼爾•卡德里醫生被我們逮個正著。當時他正用救護車把一頭牛從庫尼亞市場載往他住的坦達村。」
坦達村(位於印度邊界)衛生所所長卡德里上週六在附近牛市買了這頭牛。警方攔下救護車,發現他把牛繫在車內的欄杆上。
衛生當局已將卡德里停職,並展開調查。
鄰鎮古吉拉特鎮的資深衛生官員穆罕默德•穆尼爾•阿莫說:「這是濫用職權。」
他告訴法新社說:「我還是第一次聽到用救護車載動物這種事!我們已經把該名醫生和救護車駕駛停職。」
(法新社╱翻譯:林倩如)
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