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HYDERABAD, Nov 30: The import and inspection depot has not provided medicines to the Civil Hospital Hyderabad despite the lapse of five months, which has badly affected the provision of medicines to patients.
CHH sources told this correspondent here on Friday that the hospital administration was assured in the first week of November that medicines would soon be dispatched to the hospital but it was not done as yet.
They said the hospital had to suspend purchase of medicines from its budget more than one month ago as funds in this head had exhausted.
The hospital gets 75 per cent budget in the shape of medicines from the I. I. depot and the remaining budget is given in cash in two instalments on half-yearly basis for the purchase of medicines, either not provided by the depot or being expensive.
It was learnt that the hospital management had to depend on the Zakat fund and even amount in the head was about to be exhausted.
A source said the hospital medical superintendent had requested Sindh Auqaf, Zakat and Ushr Minister Dr Irfan Gul Magsi for releasing Rs2 million from the Zakat fund for the hospital so that patients could be provided with medicines.
Medicines provided by the I. I. depot are meant for use at the out-patient department, operation theatres and casualty and other departments.
The sources said since a huge amount of money was involved in medicines supply to government-run hospitals, the procurement section of the Sindh health department preferred their favourites for award of contracts for medicines’ purchase. That was why the purchase was being delayed, they added.
DEMO: A large number of residents of Liaquat Ashraf Colony and Parda Park on Sunday blocked the Gharib Nawaz bridge to protest against the accumulation of sewage in their area, which comes under union council 12 of Latifabad Taluka.
The protesters said that they were complaining about the poor sanitary conditions in their area but no one was paying heed, and added that accumulation of sewage was causing a host of difficulties for them.
The residents complained that they were even forced to pass their Eid holidays in this unhealthy environment but the authorities concerned remained unmoved.
They complained that they faced a lot of difficulties in moving around.
They raised slogans against the Hyderabad Development Authority.
Later, Latifabad Taluka Nazim Abdul Jabbar Khan arrived there. He talked to the residents and persuaded them to end their protest.
The Nazim blamed the HDA for creating problems for the residents of Liaquat Ashraf Colony and Makrani Para.
He said that he had recently got a drain replaced in the area but another sewerage line of the HDA got damaged.
He said that HDA employees had installed a pump without informing Hesco to drain out the water with the result that Hesco employees cut off the electricity to their area.
