Karachi; Patients are worried about the lack of anesthetists in government hospitals

Karachi: The shortage of doctors in the government hospitals of Shahr Quaid has increased the problems of the patients, due to the reduced number of anesthetic doctors, delays in important operations are becoming commonplace, while minor surgeries have also become a tough test for the patients.

According to the details, there is a shortage of anesthesia doctors in the health centers under the Sindh Health Department and Uzma Karachi Municipality in Karachi, due to which several operations have been postponed. It’s like playing with.

Executive Officer of Jinnah Hospital Karachi Professor Shahid Rasool told Express that in the medical field anesthesia doctors have more importance as they ensure the comfort and safety of patients during surgery.

He said that these doctors are experts in pain management, anesthetic planning before the surgery to minimize the patient’s pain during the surgery. They monitor the breathing and heart rate of patients during surgery, they are also responsible for providing oxygen to the patient during surgery.

According to Professor Shahid Rasool, there has been no recruitment of these doctors in Jinnah Hospital since 2012. Jinnah Hospital currently has three RMOs of Anesthesia, one Assistant Professor and thirty to forty post-graduates (FCPS and MCP). S) are included.

Currently, there is no professor and associate professor available in Anesthesia Department of Jinnah Hospital Karachi, Jinnah Sindh Medical University has advertised for these vacancies, Anesthetic Doctor, Main OT, IOT, Gynecology OT, Urology OT, ENTO. T and handles operations theater duties.

Professor Shahid Rasool said that there is a need for one professor, two associate professors and four to six assistant professors in the faculty of anesthesia in Jinnah Hospital Karachi. There are 50 to 55 thousand operations in Jinnah Hospital Karachi annually.

Professor Shahid Rasool has revealed that due to the shortage of doctors, a year has to be given for minor gallbladder surgery. .

The position of the executive officer is that it was decided to hire anesthetic doctors on contract and pay a salary of three lakh rupees per doctor, but the matter got postponed due to the court order, an anesthetic can only do four to five operations in a day, MCPS and After doing FCPS, an anesthetic doctor in a government hospital is paid a maximum salary of 170 thousand, while the same doctor is getting a salary of 2.5 to 3 lakh in a private hospital.

Anesthesiologists now have three fields: they not only provide anesthetic care, but also provide intensive care (ICU) care and pain management for patients with chronic pain. Anesthetists in government hospitals are not paid adequately, due to which many specialists go to private hospitals or abroad, on the other hand, lack of proper training in this field is also depriving new doctors of opportunities in this field.

Dr. Khalid Bukhari, Medical Superintendent of Civil Hospital Karachi, while talking to Express, said that out of the five posts of senior anesthetist of grade 19 in the hospital, there are two senior anesthetists, while the remaining three posts are vacant, totaling 20 posts of anesthetist of grade 18. There are 13 anesthetists, the remaining 7 posts are vacant, while 17 posts of assistant anesthetists of 17 grades are vacant in Civil Hospital, operations are being postponed due to shortage of anesthetist doctors in the hospital.

MS Dr. Javed of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital said that there is one senior resident doctor (SR), eight RMOs and one PG in the anesthesia department of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, while the hospital has one professor, one or two associate professors, There should be two assistant professors, 14 to 16 RMOs, there is a shortage of anesthesia doctors in the department, due to which the operation process is affected, there is no recruitment in Abbasi Shaheed Hospital since 2012.