DADU, Aug 18: The Civil Hospital, Dadu, is deprived of basic facilities like drainage, water supply system, and has an acute shortage of doctors and beds since the last many years.

The Civil Hospital Dadu was built in 1941 but the hospital has been lacking in basic facilities ever since.

Its drainage system was constructed in 1962 but timely repair was not carried out due to the paucity of funds as a result of which it has collapsed now.

The water supply system is not working properly as a result of which the residents of doctors’ colony, lower staff colony, and its surrounding areas were facing hardships.

The hospital administration had constructed a new water supply scheme to provide water to the hospital and its employees colonies. However, the pipeline broke down at many places and the water mixed with sewage.

At least 15 bungalows and 28 staff quarters have not been repaired since the last 40 years and are in a shambles now.

The main problem regarding provision of medical facilities in the Civil Hospital Dadu is the non-availability of cardiologists and equipment for the cardiology ward as a result of which patients of heart diseases were facing difficulties.

Interestingly, there is no paediatrics ward in the hospital since 1984.

About 39 beds were provided for the ENT ward, which has 18 rooms. However, the number of beds is not enough as 50 to 60 children are admitted in the ward on a daily basis.

The maternity ward is also facing a shortage of beds. It was provided 10 beds by the medical ward and 10 by the surgical ward. But it still needs more beds.

Dr Javed Ahmed Dawach, a civil surgeon at the hospital, told this correspondent that the maternity ward was facing shortage of women medical officers, and added that only five women medical officers had been working in the ward while seven posts were lying vacant.

He further said that one post for a surgeon was lying vacant in the surgical ward of the hospital, while the hospital was catering patients from Kotri to Moro daily for surgery.

He said that the capacity of the ward had not been increased since the last many years.

The EDO, Health, Dadu, Dr Khadim Hussain Lakhair, told this correspondent that 17 posts of male nurses had been lying vacant in the Civil Hospital and would be filled when the ban on recruitments was lifted.