LARKANA, Nov 28: The academic council of the Chandka Medical College has decided to set up two units in surgery and medicine departments in hospitals affiliated with the CMC.

The units are: surgery-III and medicine-III. Prof Sher Mohammed Shaikh, the head of surgery-III, said the decision had been taken in the wake of increased frequency of patients.

CMC principal Professor Sikandar Shaikh said the new surgical and medical units would have 36 beds each in the teaching hospital. He said that 80-bed orthopaedics, 50-bed neurosurgery and 30-bed ENT departments would be shifted to the recently renovated city block of the CMCH.

The neurology department with 24 beds would work close to the casualty department, he said.

Dr Hakim Abro was made the head of the department of Medicine-III. The Sindh health minister would inaugurate the new units on December 13.

Mr Shaikh said that the expansion was badly needed at the CMCH as it caters the needs of upper Sindh, parts of Balochistan and Punjab.

The hospital is also in serious need of postings in the department of anaesthesia.

Postponement of operations in surgery, paediatrics surgery and gynaecology has become a routine phenomenon due to the shortage of trained anaesthesiologists in the department.