HYDERABAD, March 31: The Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences has not made payment of 40 per cent of its annual collection under different heads to the civil hospital as notified by the Sindh governor in September 2002.

Hospital sources said the governor, being the chancellor of Sindh universities, issued the notification but the civil hospital had not been made any payment.

The governor’s office has failed to ensure payment of the 40 per cent of annual collection of non-government funds, including funds collected through the self-finance scheme, to the hospital.

The sources said the notification which covered all universities and attached teaching hospitals clearly specified utilization of the funds by hospitals concerned.

It was learnt that successive civil hospital superintendents had been making correspondence with the LUMHS administration to seek the payment but no positive response had been given. The Sindh secretary for health was also aware of the situation as a communication was recently sent to him but he failed to use his good offices.

The sources said the funds could be of great help because modern equipment, including MRI machines, could be purchased and ambulances repaired from it.

They said the diagnostic and research laboratory of the LUMHS was also working in the premises of the civil hospital, using its electricity and prime location for commercial purposes.

The tariff of the LUMHS laboratory is higher as compared to that of the civil hospital’s own pathology laboratory as the latter offers several free investigations to deserving patients.