SHIKARPUR, March 25: A one-day free medical camp was held by the district health department at the civil hospital here on Saturday. About 3,000 patients of different diseases were examined who were provided with free medicines and X-ray facilities.

Sindh health secretary Naushad Ahmad Shaikh visited the camp and expressed satisfaction over arrangements.

Talking to journalists, he said that taking notice of complaints about shortage of medicines and supply of substandard medicines to government hospitals, the Sindh government had cancelled previous rate lists of medicines to be purchased through the health department at the provincial level. He said medicines would be purchased by the health department at the district level for which the Sindh government had constituted a four-member purchase committee, comprising the district nazim, DCO, EDO, health, and the medical superintendent of the district headquarters hospital.