NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: The Civil Hospital of Naushahro Feroze is working without a pathologist, urologist, radiologist, orthopaedic surgeons, eye and ENT specialists, senior physicians and general surgeons, Dawn learnt on Thursday.

According to the hospital’s civil surgeon, Dr Deen Muhammad Khoso, the posts for these doctors were to be filled after the hospital was upgraded to civil hospital from the taulka hospital in 1989 but they remain vacant even after 25 years.

Only an ENT specialist and a pathologist were posted for some time, but the ENT specialist had himself transferred after some time while the pathologist died about two years ago, he said.

The hospital works round the clock and about 400 patients visit it daily who do not get adequate treatment at the hospital because of a dearth of specialist doctors. Different civil surgeons, including him, posted over the years kept reminding the authorities concerned about the acute shortage of doctors and the need to fill the vacant posts but in vain, he said.

Sindh Chief Minister

Syed Qaim Ali Shah had in 2009 assured a meeting of PPP workers that the hospital would be equipped with all facilities but nothing had been done so far.

Published in Dawn, December 25th, 2015