Dysfunctional facility: Rs1.27b approved for BBH development schemes
Despite previous funding facility faces lack of water, accommodation, updated medication
Despite previous funding facility faces lack of water, accommodation, updated medication PHOTO: FILE
RAWALPINDI:
Three new development schemes costing Rs1.27 billion for the improvement of medical facilities at Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) have been approved.
However, in spite of consuming Rs6 billion in the last six years, the medical facilities at BBH remain insufficient. Furthermore, doctors’ expertise, the staff’s attitude and the lack of updated medical facilities too pose a lot of questions about the hospital’s functioning.
The hospital has the capacity to accommodate only 650 patients, while over 13 million patients headed to the hospital for treatment last few years out of which more than 4.5 million were brought into emergency while 7.8 million went to the Out-Patient Department (OPD) for treatment.
In total 20,868 operations were performed in various departments of the hospital, 12,223 being major operations and 8,645 being minor operations.
Furthermore 3,686 people who were brought to the hospital in critical condition, died during treatment. Despite these incidences no medical audit record is present at the hospital regarding the deaths which occurred there.
The budget allotted by the hospital for medicines is so low that if it were to be divided among the patients who come to the hospital for treatment, the per-head budget would be five rupees per year.
Moreover, the long standing problem of water still exists at the hospital; in fact there is no water system in place at the urology department.
Only one filtration plant is functional at the hospital however now under the donation package the decision to install a new filtration plant in front of the OPD has been made.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 6th, 2018.
Three new development schemes costing Rs1.27 billion for the improvement of medical facilities at Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) have been approved.
However, in spite of consuming Rs6 billion in the last six years, the medical facilities at BBH remain insufficient. Furthermore, doctors’ expertise, the staff’s attitude and the lack of updated medical facilities too pose a lot of questions about the hospital’s functioning.
The hospital has the capacity to accommodate only 650 patients, while over 13 million patients headed to the hospital for treatment last few years out of which more than 4.5 million were brought into emergency while 7.8 million went to the Out-Patient Department (OPD) for treatment.
In total 20,868 operations were performed in various departments of the hospital, 12,223 being major operations and 8,645 being minor operations.
Furthermore 3,686 people who were brought to the hospital in critical condition, died during treatment. Despite these incidences no medical audit record is present at the hospital regarding the deaths which occurred there.
The budget allotted by the hospital for medicines is so low that if it were to be divided among the patients who come to the hospital for treatment, the per-head budget would be five rupees per year.
Moreover, the long standing problem of water still exists at the hospital; in fact there is no water system in place at the urology department.
Only one filtration plant is functional at the hospital however now under the donation package the decision to install a new filtration plant in front of the OPD has been made.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 6th, 2018.