Patients at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) suffered yesterday as hospital staff staged a six-hour work stoppage following a clash with those injured during the July uprising.

What Umme Kulsum remembers about her childhood is full of unfulfilled dreams and aspirations but the six-grader will surely be able to chase her dreams in her youth with the prosthetic leg given recently.

It is disheartening to note that the emergency unit of the country's prime hospital for accident victims, National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor), is suffering due to mismanagement and inadequate staff.