NAUNDERO: The issues faced by the 100-bed government hospital Naundero has not yet been resolved despite several letters sent to the District Health Officer, Larkana, Director General, Health Services, Sindh and the Health Secretary hence all the incoming poverty-ridden patients continue to suffer despite paying direct and indirect taxes in this massive price hike era.
There is neither a consultant doctor for children, nor cardiologist, ultrasonologist nor any physician and all the relevant OPD patients are regularly examined by the simple medical officers. It was propagated that ChildLife Foundation will establish an emergency ward for the children but nothing has yet been done despite passage of several months and beds even today remain empty.
In this connection, Dr. Muhammad Sharif Pirzado, Medical Superintendent of the hospital, has written a letter to the Vice Chancellor, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University (SMBBMU), Larkana, to provide the services of the above doctors on urgent basis so that poor patients of the area should not travel to Larkana for getting treatment being the hometown of martyred Bhutto leaders.
In yet another letter addressed to the District Health Officer (DHO), Dr, Pirzado has demanded fuel for ambulances and a generator to ensure interrupted power supply to the casualty, laboratory and x-ray due to over nine hours unscheduled electricity load shedding being made here on regular basis and smooth running of ambulances to shift emergency patients to Larkana as this hospital continue to lack emergency treatment facilities. The solar system has also become faulty which also needs to be repaired which will help greatly.
This hospital was previously affiliated with SMBBMU Larkana vide Health Department Notification dated 21st May, 2012 but no improvement has so far been brought forward. It was also handed over to IHS for improving its services but the result was poor as no postgraduate doctors were deployed for various ailments and the patients continued to travel to Larkana and elsewhere.
C-Section Operation is urgently needed for pregnant women for which the DHO has only to post an anesthetist on rotation basis and then this facility will start in other healthcare facilities as well which will give great relief to the patients that arrive from remote villages where even infrastructure is unavailable. The residents have once again urged the PPP top leadership to look into the issues of the hospital and provide all required facilities at the hospital without further loss of time.