LAHORE, Feb 9: The Shalimar Hospital management has formed a committee of senior doctors and experts to probe the incident of selling hospital waste to some people in the Raiwind Road area.

According to a press release issued on Thursday, the hospital administration has also suspended all the staff of Hospital Waste Management Unit and directed the committee to submit its report in this regard within a week.

According to the administration, the waste management unit is a separate entity led by its Director Junaid Habibullah. It has no direct link with any doctor or staff of the hospital.

The press release said the unit had been providing medical waste services to the Shalimar Hospital for the last 10 years. The committee will identify the security breach and will also bring the facts as to why rules and regulations were not adopted by the officials concerned.

The administration further claimed that the medical waste seized by the police was not transported from the Shalimar Hospital. The waste was collected by the people concerned from various places of the city and stocked at a private godown on Riawind Road.

City District Government of Lahore officials had got arrested red-handed some 10 people belonging to the waste management unit on Wednesday when they were transporting the medical waste to a private residence on Raiwind Road.