Medical Care: Fatima Jinnah Hospital lacks staff

Some 500 women visits the out patient department everyday.

MULTAN: Fatima Jinnah Hospital- one of the biggest gynae hospitals in the district- is facing an acute shortage of paramedics and other staff, Medical Superintendent Ghazala Safdar told APP on Wednesday. She said the hospital currently had 45 paramedics while it needed 126. She also expressed concerns about the lack of security guards at the hospital. She said with the increasing incidents of violence on hospital premises, every department needed a guard. She said the hospital management had managed to conduct 2,900 operations since May last.  Some 500 women visited the out patient department everyday. Asked whether or not caesarian-section cases were increasing at the hospital, she said most women from the rural areas who had normal deliveries preferred midwives. She denied that the number of c–section cases were rising.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 27^th, 2013.