The waiting area was just as pathetic and extremely congested inside as well as outside the hospital.
NOWSHERA: A few days ago I was scheduled to go to the Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine in Peshawar with my aunt for her check-up. As we entered the city, I realised that there was no sign of a radical ‘change’ which was promised by the head of PTI, Imran Khan, before the May 11 election last year.
The moment I reached the hospital, I realised that there were no wheelchairs in sight and I had to run around the whole place just to find out that there were a total of five wheelchairs present in the whole hospital and were completely booked. Thank God I finally found one; to my dismay, it was in such a terrible condition that I had to move it like a wheelbarrow.
The waiting area was just as pathetic and extremely congested inside as well as outside the hospital, in addition, a cherry on top that the doctor was nowhere to be found! One wonders if this is the case in other provincial health facilities as well.
I voted for the PTI. It wasn’t my proudest moment and the only reason I went ahead with it was for the sake of Imran Khan and his attractive slogans of building a ‘Naya Pakistan’.
Is this is the change promised by Imran Khan? Is this his health emergency? He cannot provide the public such basic needs and he talks about changing the whole country? I now find these claims to be absurd.
Ibrahim Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, July 19th, 2014.
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