Sindh Government Hospital Liaquatabad Medical Superintendent Dr Ansar Ahmed Ansari said on Saturday that his hospital urgently needed specialist doctors to deal with the rising number of patients and to further improve patients’ care.
Dr Ansari said the number of visiting patients had increased sharply in this 200-beded hospital. He said 1500 to 2000 patients attend OPDs on daily basis.
He said posts of over 15 senior medical officers were lying vacant in the hospital. He said the posts of specialist doctors including pathologist, general surgeon, urologist, physician, neurologist, nephrologist and casualty doctors were also lying vacant in the hospital.
He informed that 50 posts of nurses had been sanctioned for the hospital but only 28 nurses were available in three shifts, while rest of the posts were lying vacant which needed to be filled to further improve patients’ care. He said there was no shortage of medicines in the healthcare but a request had been sent to the health department for increasing the budget for drugs to cater increasing number of patients.
Dr Ansar said his hospital offered all major OPD services include paeds, gynecology, orthopedic, ENT, cardiac emergency, dialysis facilities, emergency care, paeds nursery, blood bank and diagnostics facilities to the residents of Liaquatabad, Nazimabad, FB Area and other neighbouring localities free of cost. He said dialysis facilities were available free of cost in the hospital and 35 registered patients were availing these facilities on regular basis.
He said a Breast Cancer Diagnostic Center building had been completed in the hospital and screening of women would start soon. He said this new diagnostic center would be made functional within two months. He said around 200 to 250 patients were brought to the hospital’s emergency department every day where they receive emergency treatment.
He said currently 150 doctors were performing their duties but the hospital urgently needed specialist doctors to improve patient care. He said 350 paramedics, nurses and other administrative employees are also performing their duties.
He said a paramedical training institute and a school of midwifery and school of nursing had also been established in the hospital. He said paramedics, nurses and midwives also trained under the supervision of experts.