KARACHI, Nov 5: The Cardiac Emergency Centre (CEC) of the Sindh Government Hospital Liaquatabad has been without a supervisor for more than seven days. As a result of this mismanagement as well as problems are being faced by patients visiting the centre.

A doctor at the Cardiac Emergency Centre told newsmen on Friday that the centre, an eight-bedded coronary care unit with full supportive facilities, was being run over the past year in public-private partnership.

"Between 30 and 50 patients requiring emergency medical aid visit the centre every day," he said, adding that all facilities were being provided free of cost to needy patients.

This is the only public sector hospital having such a coronary care unit in densely populated area (formerly central district) of the city. Regarding absence of the supervisory in-charge, the doctor said that an FCPS doctor had been assigned the job till recently.

"However, since he was asked by the hospital administration to stop doing this job, no one has yet been appointed to handle the centre's affairs." Owing to the situation, patients have to be referred to some other hospitals and the number of admissions has also come down. He said that junior doctors are reluctant to accept admission of a patient in serious condition. -PPI