HYDERABAD: Investigation into hospital affairs demanded
Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, July 9: A judicial inquiry has been demanded into the alleged malpractice and mal-administration in the Hyderabad Civil Hospital.
The probe was demanded by Dr Abdullah Kamran Soomro, Abdur Rasheed, Mohammad Azam, Arshad Hussain and Abdul Haseeb Khwaja, associated with the health services group of a newly-formed NGO — The Clients —, while speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Tuesday.
They also appealed to elected representatives to take notice of the malpractice in the hospital.
They said the civil hospital was provided medicines to the tune of Rs30 million every year but patients were not given medicines as the same was misappropriated.
They said different equipment was also lying out of order at the hospital as a result patients had to pay higher fees for their tests at private laboratories.
They alleged that senior professors seldom visited OPD and criticized the medical superintendent and assistant medical superintendents for not ensuring cleanliness in the hospital.
They claimed that a conspiracy was afoot to shut down the hospital’s pathology laboratory where only 15 tests were charged out of 85 tests.
They said after closure of this laboratory, tests would be conducted at the research pathological laboratory at higher rates.
They recalled that the federal government had approved a scheme in 1988 under which two intensive care units, one in the Hyderabad Civil Hospital and the other in the Jamshoro Civil Hospital, were to be established.
They said the government had also released funds and after 18 years an ICU was established in the Jamshoro hospital.
They said a building for this purpose had been completed in Hyderabad but the equipment had yet to be installed.
