Daily Times

LARKANA: Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH) Medical Superintendent Dr Javed Ali Shaikh has written a letter to the principal of the Chandka Medical College and showed concerns over the direct admission of patients. He stated that consultants working under the principal were directly admitting patients of their private clinics in their respective wards in the evening and night shifts, causing hardships for casual doctors as patients arriving in the Accident & Emergency Centre could not get beds which prolong their treatment. During a meeting held in his office recently, all the additional medical superintendents of the Chandka Hospital complained about this practice. Dr Shaikh said that the doctors use their letterheads without any proper OPD slip. “This practice is being done since long. It is against the established policy which creates lots of problems for the administration and poor patients, who are referred to the wards, suffer badly and mostly kept in Accident & Emergency Centre,” he stated. He also said that they must be instructed to stop this practice, follow the prevailing procedure and route the patients through casualty in future so that deserving poor ailing populace should not suffer. The medical superintendent through an office order has directed that no user charges should be collected from any patient except what is allowed by the government.