LARKANA: Medical Superintendent, Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH) Dr. Gulzar Ahmed Tunio speaking to the media on Friday said that today there are some posts on social media criticizing CMCH management for sheer negligence and mismanagement, in which there is no truth, he claimed.

He said that some of them are our employees and some are private people, he added. He said the sweeper who was on duty at congested Casualty today, reached the duty a little late due to his personal compulsion due to which heaps of garbage (Hospital Waste) could not be removed from the Casualty and piled up.

He said some people recorded videos and uploaded them on social media which created an uproar in the public as they became viral, which is a completely wrong action and they want to spoil the environment of the hospital, Dr. Tunio alleged. He said that in the current situation, the existing emergency ward is very small and congested for a large number of patients, he admitted and added, the patients also arrive here from other districts which are also dealt with.

He said that soon Casualty will be shifted to a new 62-bed capacity Emergency (Trauma) Center by 15th March where there will be uninterrupted power supply without any electricity load-shedding. He said that recruitment of new staff in the trauma center has also started and the first lady doctor has also done medical fitness. He also admitted that the quality of service at the existing Casualty is negligible due to narrow space and unavailability of other essential facilities.

It must also be mentioned here that MRI and CT scan facilities are not available in the CMCH since long and poor patients are forced to get these vital diagnostic radiological tests from outside out of their own pocket in this massive inflation era which cost them more than triple. Only one CT scan of the brain is conducted and other CT scan tests are carried out from the private medical centers due to which they are doing roaring business but the CMCH authorities have done nothing to obtain the latest machine at once for the benefit of poor patients.