HYDERABAD, Jan 7: The Civil Hospital of Hyderabad administration has requested the Sindh health department that it should be given half of the medicines budget for local purchases and 50 per cent medicines be provided by the import and inspection depot.

A CHH source said medical superintendent Dr Shafqat Memon had sent a formal request to the health department in this regard to overcome the shortage of medicines at the hospital.

The hospital has been writing to the I. I. depot for medicines but sources said so far tenders had not been invited. The CHH sources hinted at the involvement of some elements of the I. I. depot in the delay in the supply of medicines to the hospital. The MS in his letter said the CHH needed life-saving drugs.