KARAK, June 24: The district headquarters hospital, Karak, lacks all kinds of specialist doctors, as a consequence of which the people of the district are facing serious problems. The people have demanded of the provincial government to recruit specialist doctors for the hospital.

This correspondent learnt from a reliable source at the hospital on Sunday that posts for a cardiologist, an ophthalmologist, a dermatologist, a radiologist and a neurologist had been lying vacant since long and senior officials of the health department were being negligent in this regard.

The medical superintendent of the hospital, Dr Shera Jan Dawar, said that apart from specialist doctors 10 posts of senior medical officers, three posts of medical officers and two women medical officers had also been lying vacant.

He said that two women medical officers were given to the women hospital but after the lapsing of their contract they were terminated and now two women medical officers were needed on an urgent basis to cater to the needs of the people.

The medical superintendent said that at first this hospital had been established as a Tehsil headquarters hospital with 64 beds but with the passage of time it was turned into a district headquarters hospital with 264 beds, adding that during the MMA government it had been upgraded to category B but no facility was provided to the hospital making it absolutely insufficient for the needs of the people of the district.