Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), one of the main hospitals in the capital, has been facing severe shortage of official staff, especially during emergency.
Problems of accident or other severely injured patients multiply when they fail to get any help from the staff in attendance, as they suffer from mental and physical agony in the emergency wards.
An official of PIMS admitted that no helping staff has been hired for provision or assistance of patients in the emergency ward.
He even said, “The hospital fails to meet international standards.” The official said, in international hospitals, the emergency patients need not depend on personal attendants. They are provided medical treatment by nursing or other helping staff.
Some volunteers from an NGO are working in the emergency ward but compared to needs of the hospital they fall short.
The scribe of the agency witnessed it when his friend Zeeshan Awan, a journalist in a private TV channel, had a road accident and the rescue 1122 brought him to PIMS. The doctor gave him first aid but afterwards he was left alone on the stretcher without any medical help for an hour. He had to wait for hours just to be taken for medical checkup and x-ray.
The patients and their personal attendants urged the officials of the hospital to hire official helping staff.
