ISLAMABAD
\nAn aging delivery attendant of a frozen food company Anwar Jaml has been battling for life for nearly ten days after the company\u2019s truck he was riding met a fatal accident on Nov 14.
\nThe driver of the vehicle was also injured but has recovered, however, 56-yearold Anwar Jamal is in comma and according to doctors his condition is serious.
\nStrangely, the company, Menu (Ready to Eat & Cook Chicken Food Recipe Products), despite its repute and booming business across the country has failed to show magnanimity the family members of Anwar Jamal were expecting.
\nOn the contrary, it has almost disowned him saying the company doesn\u2019t provide medical cover to its employees.
\nThe contract he signed with the company 15 years ago doesn\u2019t include medical treatment, a supervisor Tanveer told Anwar Jamal\u2019s family.
\nAnwar, father of two daughters and a college-going son, is in coma since then and his children are running from pillar to post for his proper treatment and to bring him back to consciousness.
\nMarium Jamal, daughter of Anwar said on Saturday it was a distressing state her entire family is passing through but she was surprised how the employer, the frozen food company could ignore a loyal employee who has been on its payroll for the last fifteen years and has done his utmost all this while to earn profits for the employer.
\nEven on the day of accident, he was not going for some personal errand rather he was in the company\u2019s truck delivering company\u2019s goods, she said.
\nMarium said her father was sitting on the window-side seat close to the driver when the driver lost the control of the truck. It was daytime and they were coming from delivering the food items in E-11, she said. My father had severe head injuries and was rushed to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS).
\nThere at the hospital, the doctors described him serious and told her that it was internal head injury. His oxygen level was dangerously low.
\nThe hospital lacked oxygen and they had to shift Anwar Jamal from PIMS to Kulsoom International Hospital and bore the expenses of ventilator and other services. \u201cDuring the first few days, we didn\u2019t receive any visit from higher management of the company and when after my insistence Mr Asad a senior officer (head of the North) did visit and consoled the family,\u201d said she.
\nMr Asad told them that the company could provide only PKR 50,000 and that too as goodwill gesture otherwise there was no provision of medical cover for employees, narrated Marium. It may be mentioned here that in private hospitals daily rate for keeping the patient on ventilator is around PKR100,000.
\nMarium is a housewife and she and her husband hardly managed the money for keeping Anwar Jamal in the private hospital for four days. After four days all their savings exhausted yet they instead of bringing Anwar Jamal home shifted him to another private hospital, Rawal Hospital though with lesser rates.
\nMarium said it was strange that a booming businesslike her father\u2019s company doesn\u2019t offer medical cover to its employees.
\n\u201cIt is not the question of my father, it is rather a collective issue and all such companies which are negligent towards their workers\u2019 welfare should be held accountable,\u201d she said.
\nMr Asad was asked to give his viewpoint but he said the matter didn\u2019t directly relate with him as he dealt in sales matters. When asked in that case why he visited Anwar Jamal at the hospital, he replied that it was because he was an employee of the company.
\nAnwar is still in coma, still in the hospital. For the food company, business is as usual as they have hired another delivery attendant and are quite forgetful of the life-and-death condition of their \u2018ex-employee.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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