LARKANA:Poor kidney-failure patients of Nephrology Department of Chandka Medical College Hospital and their attendants held a large protest demonstration outside the Ward here on Thursday against shortage of medicines.
The protestors including Jabbar Buriro, Nawaz Kalhoro, Mir Muhammad Sohu, Rizwan Memon and others said that Sindh Government’s Health Department has erected lofty building where costly dialysis machines are also kept but many medicines are not getting provided to patients due to which they are forced to procure them from private medical stores.
They said the low-income patients have already been suffering from poverty and price hike and they cannot purchase required medicines at high cost.
They said our loved ones are dying before them and they remain helpless and cannot do anything for them. They said that doctors and paramedics are advising us to get treatment at Sukkur or Karachi.
They against asked if we had money then we would not have already gone to these cities instead of coming here.
They appealed to Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and higher government authorities to take immediate notice of this critical issue and provide essential drugs to CMCH.
When CMCH Medical Superintendent Dr. Ali Gohar Dahri was contacted he confessed that acute medicine shortage is being faced by the poor patients and added that due to late tender the medicine supply was delayed.
He said that tender has recently been approved, orders have been placed with successful bidders and now supply is awaited after which there will be no shortage of medicines.