KARACHI:The visiting and indoor patients are facing grave hardships at Sindh Government Hospital Liaquatabad as CT scan machine is lying out of order since several months.
The CT scan machine has developed some technical fault several months ago and this machine was not repaired yet. Dozens of patients are brought to this hospital every day from different areas of Karachi and some of them needed diagnostic services such CT scan.
The poor OPD and indoor patients are being referred to private hospitals and labs for CT scan. The private health facilities and labs charge heavy fees for conducting diagnostics tests which are out of reach of poor patients. The hospital administration was unable to get faulty equipment repaired yet due to lack of funds.
An hospital official said Sindh government allocated less than a million for maintenance and repairing of out of order equipment’s each year, but repairing charges of diagnostics machines had been increased with passage of time.
Medical Superintendent, Sindh Government Hospital Liaquatabad Hospital, Dr Muhammad Ayub Babar, while talking to PPI, said the hospital administration was unable to repair the CT scan machine due to lack of funds. He however said formal request had been sent to Secretary Health Sindh for release of funds for maintenance of out of order diagnostic equipment.