CM Maqbool Baqar removes MS of Civil Hospital Khairpur

• During visit,  patients were lying on bare beds without bedsheets.
• MS told CM that there were no lady doctors on duty in emergency.
• MS and Director Finance failed to show expenditures of hospital.

KHAIRPUR: Caretaker Chief Minister Justice (retd) Maqbool Baqar after witnessing the pathetic condition in Civil Hospital Khairpur placed the services of the Director Finance and ordered the transfer of the Medical Superintendent of the hospital and ordered an overall inquiry into the hospital affairs.

The CM accompanied by his principal Secretary Hassan Naqvi and Secretary Health Dr Mansoor Rizvi paid a surprise visit to the Civil Hospital.

In the emergency, the female and male patients were lying on bare beds without bedsheets. There was no segregation for male and female patients. The beds were lying here and there and there was no oxygen, monitors and even nebulisers were out of order and were lying on the floor with multiple layers of dust rusting them.

To a question, the MS told the CM that there were no lady doctors on duty in the emergency and there was only one lady doctor who was called to the hospital `on call.’ This enraged the CM, and he warned the Medical Superintendent of the hospital to behave like a doctor and administrator of the hospital. “How can you allow such a mess, mismanagement, unprofessional attitude in a hospital where more than 3000 patients visit regularly,” he said and added the hospital was a 550-bedded facility but being run like a dispensary.

Justice Baqar visited radiology and inspected the dark Room where X-rays were being processed was in a pathetic and dirty condition. It seemed to the CM that the room had not been cleansed ever since it was commissioned.

The CM checked the laboratory of the hospital which had good equipment but some of them were out of order and no effort was not taken to fix their issues. The CM visited the pharmacy, where no appropriate record of the medicines being given to the patients was maintained. A private pharmacy was operating inside the hospital premises against which the CM directed the Secretary health to get it sealed.

The interim CM visited the kitchen of the hospital where he was told that food was being prepared for 350 patients. As a matter of fact, the kitchen was like a abandoned room where cooking had not been made for long.

The Medical Superintendent and Director Finance failed to show the expenditures of the hospital incurred during the last few months and they had no record of the doctors present on duty and on leave.

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Therefore, the CM placed the services of the Director Finance under suspension and ordered the transfer of the medical superintendent.