HYDERABAD, June 1: Responding to the Dawn story, “Civil Hospital lacks emergency facilities for heart patients”, the registrar, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS), Jamshoro, Prof Abdul Latif Soomro, has said that the public sector hospitals in Pakistan have not really been able to provide the best possible health delivery system and their services are not always compatible with demands and needs.

In a letter, he said that in the past better patient care was provided by the hospital when the principal of the Liaquat Medical College was also the administrator for the Liaquat Medical College Hospital.

He said that teaching hospitals are always part of medical colleges and without this arrangement neither the training of the doctors is possible nor the benefit of expertise of the professorial staff can reach the patients.

He said that the professorial staff, although the employees of the university/medical college, also act as consultants of the hospital.

Under the circumstances, he said, the question of any unit without an in charge or anybody volunteering for the job does not arise.

RESULTS: The controller of examinations, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, has announced the results of Final Professional MBBS annual examinations of 2002 of the LUMHS and Chandka Medical College, Larkana, held in the month of October 2002.

Miss Saira Fatima, daughter of Azizullah Shaikh, seat No1035, has secured first position; Dileep Kumar, son of Nanik Ram Lohana, seat No90, has secured second position; and Nanik Ram, son of Parmanand Khatwani, seat No841, has secured third position.