--- title: "Punjab government orders inquiry into handwritten medico-legal certificates at five hospitals" description: "Most outlets reported that the Punjab government has constituted a panel to investigate the issuance of handwritten medico-legal certificates at five hospitals and to hold medical superintendents accountable. Dawn led with the specific number of certificates (4,244) and the government's move to \"fix responsibility,\" while Minute Mirror focused on the inquiry being ordered and the involvement of five medical superintendents, without mentioning the certificate count." url: https://harzaviya.com/stories/5032-panel-to-probe-into-handwritten-medico-legal-certificates site: HarZaviya language: en --- # Punjab government orders inquiry into handwritten medico-legal certificates at five hospitals pakistan · latest filing 27 Aug 2026, 7:28 AM PKT · 26–27 Aug 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets **HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts: > Most outlets reported that the Punjab government has constituted a panel to investigate the issuance of handwritten medico-legal certificates at five hospitals and to hold medical superintendents accountable. Dawn led with the specific number of certificates (4,244) and the government's move to "fix responsibility," while Minute Mirror focused on the inquiry being ordered and the involvement of five medical superintendents, without mentioning the certificate count. ## Same story from 2 outlets Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source. - **Dawn** — [Panel to probe into handwritten medico-legal certificates at five Punjab hospitals](https://www.dawn.com/news/2025307/panel-to-probe-into-handwritten-medico-legal-certificates-at-five-punjab-hospitals) · 27 Aug 2026, 7:28 AM PKT > LAHORE: The Punjab government on Tuesday constituted a committee to conduct an inquiry and fix responsibility against the medical superintendents of five major teaching hospitals over issuance of 4,244 handwritten medico-legal certificates (MLCs) and 283 postmortem reports (PMRs) despite mandatory directions for their computerised issuance. The Punjab Specialised Healthcare and Medical Educatio... - **Minute Mirror** — [Punjab orders inquiry into handwritten medico-lega...](https://minutemirror.com.pk/punjab-orders-inquiry-into-handwritten-medico-legal-reports-618611/) · 26 Aug 2026, 5:56 AM PKT · 82% identical wording to the newest filing > The Punjab Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Department has ordered an inquiry against five medical superintendents 2 articles from 2 outlets, 26–27 Aug 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text. --- HarZaviya compares how Pakistani outlets cover the same story. It stores and shows each outlet's headline and a short excerpt, and links out — it never copies article text, and every headline belongs to the outlet that wrote it. It takes no stance on any outlet. Pages: [Top stories](https://harzaviya.com/) · [Latest headlines](https://harzaviya.com/feed) · [Archive](https://harzaviya.com/archive) · [Why](https://harzaviya.com/why) · [Sources](https://harzaviya.com/sources) · [Methodology](https://harzaviya.com/methodology) · [About](https://harzaviya.com/about) · [About the bot](https://harzaviya.com/about-bot) Trackers: [Gold prices](https://harzaviya.com/gold-prices) · [Fuel prices](https://harzaviya.com/fuel-prices) · [Stock exchange](https://harzaviya.com/stock-exchange) Any page on this site is available as markdown: send `Accept: text/markdown`, or add `.md` to the path.