KARACHI, July 14: About a hundred young patients visited on Monday the outpatient department of the newly-opened Sindh Government Children’s Hospital, North Karachi.
In the evening the adviser to the CM on health — Noman Saigal — inspected the various departments of the hospital and ensured the staff that the problems facing them would be resolved as soon as possible.
He said the hospital’s SNE (Sanctioned New Expenditure) would be approved in due time. Mr Saigal added that the grant of Rs2.5 million, which was announced on Saturday by Governor Ishratul Ibad, would soon be made available to the hospital’s staff.
GOVT HOSPITALS: Advisor to the chief minister on health, Muhammad Noman Saigal, has said that the efforts are afoot to improve the conditions of government hospitals so that the patients could be provided better health care in a clean environment, adds APP.
Talking to the newsmen at the Civil Hospital Karachi on Monday, he claimed that he found the hospital in very bad shape on his first visit.
“I asked the concerned quarters to remove the garbage from this place to get it free from stinking filth, which had been piling up for the last eight years,” he said. However, he admitted that it would take some time to convert this place into a real hospital.
When his attention was drawn towards the shabby conditions of the emergency ward, which was stinking due to seepage, he said that he was making efforts to move the provincial government in this regard, besides trying to get funds from the federal government to improve the conditions of government hospitals. Non-governmental organizations would also be pursued to extend helping hand in this noble cause, he added.
He said that there were air-conditioners installed in some of the wards, but the hospital was not financially strong to pay the electricity bills, therefore, the air conditioning facility was not available for the patients in wards. He expressed hope that philanthropists and NGOs would help the hospitals in this regard.
Mr Saigal appealed to the NGOs and philanthropists to step forward and adopt government hospitals so that the poor ailing people could get better medical facilities in a clean environment.
