LARKANA: As many as 2831 patients died at the Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH) till September 2022 in nine months out of a total admission of 47,061 while 32,819 were discharged and 2445 patients Left Against Medical Advice (LAMA) for better medical care, PPI learnt here on Wednesday.
According to the statistics, the annual CMCH Out-Patients Department (OPD) is approximately 1.70 million patients and 13,203 major and minor surgeries were performed till the end of September 2022 from January at eye, ENT, general surgery, orthopedics and neuro-surgery departments. Similarly, 120,497 x-rays, 76,251 ultrasounds, 839 CT scans on outdated machine, 1253 MRI, 408,784 laboratory investigations, 10,802 dialysis, 38,097 ECGs, 2,693 normal deliveries, 3,529 dog bite cases vaccination and 701 snake bite cases were treated during the same period which speaks high of its performance which can further be improved if the vacant sanctioned posts of doctors (BPS-17 onwards) and paramedics are filled.
There are no road-worthy ambulances for the patients, not even for shifting the poor ailing people from one ward to another which need to be looked into forthwith as CMCH is scattered at five different places of the city and one of the largest teaching hospitals of rural populace.
CMCH Medical Superintendent Dr. Gulzar Ali Tunio said that if vacant posts are filled and outdated machinery, equipment and instruments are replaced then performance of this hospital would be exemplary coupled with enhancement of annual allocated budget.
He said that old Casualty has been repaired and renovated and no new construction has been made for Medical Emergency Response Center (MERC) where 62 beds have been kept. He said that the SNE of the MERC is pending approval and implementation quickly by the bosses to enable the administration to operate the MERC for the benefit of the indisposed patients of many adjoining districts apart from Balochistan including injured.
He said an express feeder for uninterrupted power supply should also be ensured as frequent electricity load shedding has already crippled life here due to which operations are either delayed or postponed or even cancelled for unavailability of new heavy duty generators.
He said the capacity of the present Pole Mounted Transformer (PMT) must also be doubled. He further said that permission for appointment on vacant sanctioned paramedical staff posts should also be granted and gazetted posts of doctors be filled on merit through proper forum. Dr. Tunio said that an oxygen generation plant should also be sanctioned for CMCVH and annual budget allocation also needs sympathetic revision adding if these demands are accepted at once then the performance of the hospital will increase manifold saving precious human lives.