Patients complain of shortage of doctors in PIMS

ISLAMABAD: Patients have complained of facing several hardships due to shortage of specialists at outpatient department (OPD) of Children Hospital, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims).

They demanded of the authorities concerned to improve services at PIMS Children hospital with addition of trained doctors, paramedical staff and beds besides waiting places for attendants.

According to them, patients who visited the hospital from far-flung areas had to wait for hours in long queues outside the OPD for getting medical cards, where a limited place for waiting had been arranged for them.

They asked to take notice of frequent absence of senior doctors and non-observance of duty-roster by medical and non-medical staff at children hospital.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 29^th, 2019.