SARGODHA, Nov 5: Almost a year has passed but the issue of installing the CT scan machine at the local DHQ Hospital could not be decided.

This was observed by DHQ Hospital medical superintendent Malik Mazhar Rasheed while talking to newsmen.

He opposed the shifting of the CT scan machine from Sargodha to the Lahore General Hospital (LGH).

He said the LGH was already catering to the needs of patients. “Lahore has CT scan facilities in almost every government hospital, but Sargodha has none”, he said.

The MS said the district Nazim was determined to have the installed here.

He said the DHQ Hospital also could not start its burn and dialysis units for want of equipment.

Owing to the increasing number of indoor and outdoor patients, he said the hospital required three more ambulances besides special funds for the provision of life-saving drugs.

He said the nursing care would be looked up and the hospital record would also be computerized in the near future. “It is my desire to give the DHQ Hospital a status of teaching hospital,” he added.