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MIRPURKHAS, Nov 6: Hundreds of patients are suffering due to the shortage of senior physicians at the Civil Hospital Mirpurkhas.
There was no permanent senior physician in the medical ward of the Civil Hospital, while only one medical officer was supervising the ward as a result of which scores of patients were referred to Hyderabad.
Dr Balchand Motiani, a physician, was appointed at the civil hospital as chest specialist but he was later transferred to Mithi. Owing to his transfer, patients at the hospital suffered as they could not be treated properly.
Citizens have demanded that the governor and chief minister have some senior doctors posted at the district headquarters hospital.
PRISONERS: A senior physician, Dr Balchand Motiani, advised liver function test for 20 inmates of the Mirpurkhas district jail the other day after they were diagnosed with hepatitis-B.
Dr Motiani has been appointed for suggesting treatment of infected prisoners by the health department, Mirpurkhas.
The superintendent of jail, Ziaur Rehman Bajwa, said that he had written to the administration of the Civil Hospital for making arrangements for tests of the prisoners and their subsequent treatment.
