April 30, 2008	Wednesday	Rabi-us-Sani 23, 1429

LARKANA, April 29: Five vital projects of the Chandka Medical College Hospital could not take off in the current financial year as they are waiting for administrative approval.

Sources in the health department told this correspondent here on Monday that funds allocated for the projects could lapse, as only two months were left in completion of the fiscal year.

Work on a big project of Institute of Child Health Care, approved at a cost of Rs78 million and proposed to be constructed with all modern facilities near the existing CMC Children hospital, is yet to start.

The centre with the facilities of doing post graduation would have 100 bed capacity and Rs15 million were allocated for the purpose in the current financial year.

It would have the facility of 100kv standby power generator, the sources said and added the planning and development department had still not given administrative approval to this project.

Another development scheme of constructing 40 bed additional unit of Ophthalmology near the existing department at a cost of Rs10 million, approved in January 2008, was still awaiting approval by the finance department.

The accident and emergency centre, X-rays and M.R.I centre and additional scheme of the auditorium of CMC of Rs35.81 million were also not approved by health department, sources said. These five projects would cost Rs123.81 million, sources said and added that PC-I for establishing full-fledged cardiac surgery and facility of angiography and the department of Neuro- medicine and surgery at a cost of Rs80 million was submitted to the health department but it had yet not seen the light of the day.