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HYDERABAD, Oct 20: The Civil Hospital of Hyderabad is facing an acute shortage of medicines as its administration has stopped local purchase of medicines and the inspection and import depot is yet to provide medicines to the hospital.
Hospital sources told this correspondent on Monday that patients turning up at the Out Patient Department were not being provided with medicines.
They said the budget for the purchase of medicines had been released but tenders had not been called by the I.I. depot.
The CHH gets Rs46 million in the head of medicines from the I.I. depot which is 75 per cent of the total budget for medicines. The rest of 25 per cent is obtained through local purchase when needed by the hospital.
A source said the adviser to the chief minister on health, Noman Saigal, who was on a tour of the interior of Sindh, should direct the I.I. depot to call tenders for the purchase of medicines.
SHC: A division bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad, here the other day appointed the court’s deputy registrar, Ghulam Mustafa Channa, as commissioner along with a survey superintendent to identify five acres of a petitioner which according to him were acquired by the Petaro Cadet College in 1978 but did not paid him Rs2.4 million for the land.
During hearing, the respondents’ counsel told the court the college was not in possession of the land. The public relations officer of the college also maintained that the land of the petitioner was not taken by the college.
Mohammad Usman Unnar had filed the petition, citing the assistant commissioner, land acquisition officer, then Dadu deputy commissioner and the college principal as respondents.
He said his land was acquired through a Sindh government notification on Nov 30, 1978, by the college principal but he did not deposit the amount required by the LAO though the respondents had received the amount from the government.
