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LARKANA, Nov 25: The teaching hospitals in Sindh have been without medicines for the past six months because of the inefficiency on part of the inspection and import depot of the Sindh health department, sources in the Chandka Medical College Hospital said on Monday.
The department is responsible for providing 75 per cent of medicines to hospitals, attached with the medical colleges, through the inspection and import depot, the sources said.
The medical superintendent of the CMCH, Dr Mehboob Shah, said that the hospital had not received any medicine despite continued correspondence with the officials of the depot, adding that he had also visited the depot in this regard without any success.
The sources attributed the non-provision of medicines to hospitals on the department’s roll to the delayed tenders for medicines.
Under the prevailing circumstances, the sources said, the CMCH, though confronting hardships, was meeting its requirements through user’s charges. The hospital charged a fee from all patients for services rendered.
The medical superintendent of the CMCH said that seven new haemodialysis machines, worth Rs3.05 million, had been purchased in the wake of the upsurge in terms of registered kidney patients. He added that these machines would soon be added to the hospital’s department of urology.
The department of urology, he said, had carried out dialysis of around 1,950 patients in 2001 and had treated 1,649 patients till November, 2002.
The engineers, he said, had already installed a reverse osmosis system in the department of urology for performing dialysis.
The hospital, he said, had started providing fully-screened blood to the in-patients to avoid the risks of contamination and HIV/AIDS.
He also said that a cardiac emergency unit is being setup in the department of cardiology to provide emergency treatment to the heart patients instead of keeping them in the hospital’s casualty department.
The medical superintendent also said that an eight-bed medical emergency unit had been established in the teaching hospital.
ASI DISMISSED: The district police officer (DPO), Abdul Sattar Detho, on Monday dismissed the assistant sub-inspector, Sanaullah Sangi, from services on public complaints while denying a year’s seniority to the taluka police officer, Mirokhan, inspector Assadullah Bhatti, sub-inspector Shoukat Rind and Ghulam Nabi Korai.
The DPO also ordered stoppage of increments of 14 constables for one year.
He also ordered the transfer of the SHO of the Imam Bakhsh Jamali police station, sub-inspector Zulfikar Pathan, calling him to report to the police headquarters. The sub-inspector’s seniority was also slashed by one year.
Meanwhile, the DPO, Larkana has also dismissed seven constable from service.
The following were dismissed because of prolonged absence from their respective duties: Irshad Ali Shah, Irshad Ali Bhand, Irshad Ali Daivro, Ashiq Ali, Akhtar Ali and others.
