KARACHI, May 24: The Dow University of Health Sciences administration has decided to shift Unit-2 of paediatrics department to some other suitable place in order to increase its bed strength, said sources in the university.

It is learnt that the existing Unit 2 is functioning at some distance from the other two paediatrics units of the hospital. It was originally established as the third unit of the Civil Hospital Karachi by curtailing some accommodation of the medical unit of the CHK about four years back, a source said, adding that the objective was to shift one senior professor of paediatrics from the Lyari General Hospital.

However, the latest plan to dislocate the Unit 2 has raised some concern among the relevant quarters. The students and doctors associated with the unit in question are considering the administrative move something as disbandment of the unit or its merger with the two existing paediatric units at the CHK, another source claimed.

A source in the students and doctors’ circle said that a concern was there that the stakeholders as well as the patients would have to face a lot of problems in case Unit 2 was abolished.

When contacted the vice-chancellor of DUHS, Prof Masood Hameed Khan, told Dawn that there was no chance of closure of any unit.