Medicine shortage at Prince Fahad Hospital

Also lacks necessary medical equipment in emergency ward

QUETTA: The Prince Fahad Hospital in Dalbandin, which is also the district headquarter hospital of Chagai district, has been facing shortage of life-saving medicines for more than five months. The hospital also lacks necessary medical equipment in its emergency ward.
According to sources, despite informing the higher authorities several times, nothing has been done.

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The hospital has a quota of Rs500,000 per year for medicines which is the main reason for its shortage as the hospital facilitates over 1,000 patients on a monthly basis, besides emergency treatment and surgeries, the sources said.
Patients in emergency have to buy cannula, band aid and stitches from private medical centres, while most of the medicines prescribed by the doctors are not available at the hospital's stores.

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Prince Fahad Hospital, Dalbandin Medical Superintendent Dr Muhammad Jumma Bugti is in Quetta since long. He went over there to get the required quota of medicines approved from the Medical Supply Department (MSD) of the Balochistan Ministry of Health, but there was no sign of any progress.
People from different schools of thought have demanded of the provincial government, especially the health department's officials, easy and early provision of required medicines at the Prince Fahad Hospital.