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| October 9, 2001 | Tuesday | Rajab 21, 1422 |
Hospital in dire need of specialists
SADIQABAD, Oct 8: Four posts of specialists, two of doctors and 15 of junior staff are lying vacant in the Liaquatpur THQ Hospital.
Some 27 basic health centres out of a total of 28 in the tehsil are without medical officers.
The government claims to have spent big amounts on the construction of BHUs, RHCs and buildings of hospitals in remote areas. However, these institutions still stand deprived of qualified doctors.
The Liaquatpur THQ Hospital has been upgraded, but no gynaecologist, anaesthetist and specialist are associated with it. Not even a male or a female doctor is available to look after the patients. Only two nurses have been working in the hospital against not less than 12 vacancies for the last 15 years or so. Similarly, five posts of sanitary workers have yet to be filled out of eight.
In Zafarabad BHC, there is the only medical officer out of 28 working in the tehsil.
Unskilled staff in almost all the centres attend the patients. Much to visitors’ plight, the costly buildings, including the premises of residential areas, could be seen soaked with saline water.
The civic circles have demanded that the situation must be improved on a war footing.
GROWERS: Commission agents and dealers have reportedly joined hands to exploit growers by purchasing cotton for Rs600 per 40kg.
Growers of some remote areas, Fatehpur Kamal, Zahir Pir, Zafarabad, Jajja Abasian, Qadirpur and Chachran Sharif, revealed that the agents and brokers were bent on depriving them of legitimate rate of cotton. The middlemen, they complained, were purchasing cotton for Rs600 to Rs650.
They alleged the middlemen were exploiting the growers with the connivance of the Trading Corporation of Pakistan. They urged the TCP to purchase cotton from them forthwith.
FREE EYE CAMP: A free eye camp will be set up on Oct 12 within the premises of the Yousaf Hospital.
EXHIBITION: A one-day exhibition of handicraft, funfair and baby show will be arranged with the cooperation of the Anjuman Falah-i-Mareezan on Oct 28.
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