PESHAWAR, Aug 10: Patients have been hit hard by an ‘out-of-order’ MRI plant at the Hayatabad Medical Complex, doctors and technicians say. “The MRI scanner has been out of order for the past one week but no effort appears to have been made to repair it,” a doctor said, adding it was the only machine at the public-sector hospital which also catered to the needs of patients referred from other hospitals.

Criticising what he called the “apathy” of the hospital administration, he said it had taken no action despite having repeatedly been requested to repair the machine. Patients have been left to suffer.

“Only CT scans and X-rays are carried out at the hospital. Patients are forced to go to private clinics for the MRI,” a technician said.—Correspondent