I BELIEVE high-profile personalities in Islamabad never opted for Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) for medical treatment. If they had, this institution would not be in the sorrow state it is today.

In the intensive care unit, the patients’ attendants are sometimes asked to bring basic medicines, pain killer tablets or injections.

There is only one medicine store at PIMS. It overcharges the buyers. If facilitation is the purpose, let there be at least five stores.

Senior doctors at PIMS are unreachable. For them, PIMS is a patients’ ‘collection point’ for their private clinics and hospitals.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has banned private practice by government doctors. The federal government should also consider this. PIMS needs a strict administrator appointed on merit.

M. Akram Kiyani

Islamabad

Published in Dawn, August 3rd, 2015

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