KARACHI: The 400-bedded Sindh Government Gulshan e Iqbal Hospital has not completed as yet despite the lapse nine years due to traditional lathery and apathy of bureaucracy of Government of Sindh.
Sources at Health Services Department Karachi told PPI that construction work of 400-bedded Sindh Govt Gulshan e Iqbal Hospital, Karachi was started on May 19, 2009 with cost of Rs 436.356million. It was supposed to be completed in 2012-13 but the PC-I of project was revised on May 15, 2014 again with an increased cost Rs1736.359million.
The project was now supposed to be completed by the end of 2016 but only 75 per cent work had been done so far due to the slow pace of work.
The ground plus three storied building of hospital has been divided in several blocks. The construction work of Block-A, Block-B and Block-C has already completed. However, construction work of Block-D and Block-E is in finishing stage, while the construction work of administrative block has been started.
Sources said former provincial minister health Sindh Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar had given December 2016 as deadline to the concerned contractor for completion of project during his tenure but the work had not been completed so far. The project is likely to completed in the end of 2018 or in mid of 2019 if work is carried out with present pace.
The high ups of Sindh health department have also decided to convert this general hospital into Institute Of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation after completion of the project.
Sindh Health Secretary Dr Fazlullah Pechuho was not available for comments.