BAHAWALPUR, Nov 20: The angiography machine of the CCU ward in Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH) has been out of order for the last one week.

Its non-functioning is causing a lot of inconvenience to hundreds of heart patients visiting the hospital from several other districts of south Punjab as well.

BVH MS Dr Muhammad Irshad said the supplying firm which had given five years warranty was not repairing the machine. He said with the intervention of the Punjab health secretary, an agreement with supplying firm would be renewed but it required funds to the tune of millions of rupees for machine’s repair.

He said for this purpose a meeting of BVH’s board of management (BoM) had been convened on Nov 29 to seek approval for the required funds to be paid to the firm concerned. He said that administration was alive to heart patients’ difficulties which would be removed at the earliest.

The MS further stated that an MRI machine, which had also gone out of order some days ago, had been made functional with effect from Tuesday. He said delay in its repair was caused as its technicians were called from Karachi to remove the fault. He said it went out of order due its excessive use to accommodate increasing number of patients.