Liaquatabad’s Sindh Government Hospital has become an abandoned treatment center, patients are worried

Karachi: Sindh Government Hospital Liaquatabad turned into an abandoned treatment center due to the negligence of the health department. Medicines are missing in the hospital, machines are broken, patients have stopped visiting the hospital. Doctors and medical staff were absent from duty.

According to the details, in the past, facilities for urea and blood diagnostic tests were available in the 200-bed Sindh Government Hospital Liaquatabad laboratory. On a daily basis, about 100 patients used to come and 4 to 500 tests of all types were done. According to hospital sources, now only CBC and urea tests are being done in this hospital while no biochemistry test is being done in the hospital at present.

Patients admitted to the hospital alleged that many doctors and medical staff do not come to perform duties during the afternoon and night hours, due to which most of the wards of the hospital have no doctors or staff to attend to the patients. Administrative affairs in the hospital have been severely affected.

Sources said that in the past, an average of 60 to 70 patients were admitted to the hospital, but now it has reached such a point that patients have stopped visiting this hospital and now about 7 patients are admitted to the hospital.

Patients and doctors say that there is no one to ask questions in the hospital, no one even comes for treatment. The Sindh government should take immediate action and rectify the situation of the hospital.

There is no anti-rabies vaccine to be administered after dog bite in the hospital, while the Supreme Court has clear orders that it is the responsibility of the hospital authorities to ensure the provision of anti-rabies in the hospital.

There are also concerns about the stock of medicines in the hospital expiring because when the patients do not come to the hospital, who will be given the medicines?

The gynecology ward of the hospital was also not safe from forgery, a patient complained that the registration of women in the gynecology ward is completed, but when the time of delivery approaches, they are told that the operation cannot be done in this hospital. Then the patient is suggested to be transferred to a private hospital.

According to the sources, there are medical equipments including operation theater for the operation but many machines are also broken due to which the doctors are sending the patients to private hospitals.

The CT scan, lithotripsy, phaco machine, collar doppler echo and CTG machine are broken in the hospital. In the past, more than 100 x-rays were done daily, but now the hospital staff has come down to arbitrariness and only do 50 x-rays daily. .

When the team of Express News contacted the Medical Superintendent of Sindh Government Liaquatabad Hospital, Dr. Tirth Kumar, he stated that the doctors and medical staff of our hospital were not coming to their duties, after which I held a meeting and bound them all. Is.

MS said that patients do not want to enter the hospital on their own during the month of Ramadan, the hospital is facing a lack of funds to run the laboratory, but the Sindh Health Department has not refused to provide funds, but the reason is that I The medical superintendents posted in the hospital before did not inform the Khabi Health Department about this.

Dr. Tirth Kumar said that I am trying my best to improve the administrative affairs of the hospital by using all available resources.