Daily Times

LARKANA: Two Sindh High Court judges, Justices Aftab Ahmed Gorar and Khadim Hussain Tunio, accompanied by District and Sessions Judge, Larkana, Abdul Naeem Memon, paid a surprise visit to various departments and blocks of Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH) on Wednesday and expressed their dissatisfaction over non-availability of required facilities including medicines and maintenance of cleanliness.

They visited Accident & Emergency Center, Paeds Medicine Hospital (Institute of Child Health), Shaikh Zayed Hospital for Women and other departments. The judges also inquired from the admitted patients and their attendants about the facilities being given to them.

The patients and their relatives complained about shortage of medicines, non-cooperative attitude of doctors, paramedics and uncleanliness in the entire hospital. The judges directed the Medical Superintendent Dr. Ali Gohar Dahri to appear before them in Larkana on Thursday morning along with relevant documents.

It must be mentioned here that CMCH, claimed to be the largest Teaching Hospital of upper Sindh having 1500-bed capacity, is facing multifarious problems, mismanagement, ghost and absconding employees having support of influential officers, shortage of medics, nurses and paramedics, required equipment, machinery and instruments despite allocation of millions of rupees annually out of taxpayers hard earned money since last over ten years and previous provincial elected government did nothing practically to improve its services to fulfill the much advertised vision of martyred Benazir Bhutto of giving top priority to education and health sectors.

In fact, both these sector remained highly neglected during their tenure in Sindh. Until and unless reshuffling of total staff from top to bottom is not carried out thoroughly, working of this Hospital will never improve and poor poverty-stricken masses will continue to suffer for negligence of others and for paying huge taxes to the government, people of Larkana said.