BADIN, March 9: The Badin Civil Hospital is facing a host of problems, including a shortage of equipment, staff and medicines.

“None of the two incubators in the hospital is in working condition and one does not know how to help the prematurely-born babies,” a doctor said.

He complained that some vital life-saving drugs were not available in sufficient quantity and there had been a shortage of most of required medicines for some time because of negligence and mismanagement.

Inadequate budgetary allocations have always been a hurdle and differences were created between the EDO health and civil surgeon.

Former DCO, Badin, had released Rs8.4 million for the repair of machinery (Rs400,000), diet charges (Rs400,000), uniform and liveries (Rs300,000), medicines (Rs5 million) and other expenses.

It was alleged that no proper procedure had been followed in the disbursement of the amount and the EDO health moved the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for action. A case in this connection has been pending with the bureau for one year.

A dialysis machine purchased in August 2002 was installed in the hospital in 2008. A CT machine worth more than a million rupees has been lying idle as the hospital management failed to make it functional. There is no cardiologist at the hospital.

Also, there are no vital monitors for surgeries in the operation theatre. Only one analyser out of five is in working condition. There is only one refrigerator in the blood bank and that too frequently goes out of order.