Healthcare provision: ‘Appoint commission to investigate corruption at hospital’
Hospital still incomplete 10 years after it was approved.
Hospital still incomplete 10 years after it was approved. PHOTO: FILE
BAHAWALPUR:
“The chief minister should constitute a commission to investigate corruption at Shaikh Zayed Medical College Hospital (SZMCH),” Young Doctors’ Association President Dr Shabbir Warraich said on Friday.
He was speaking at a press conference where he was accompanied by Employees’ Welfare Association (EWA) President Imran Arshad and Young Nursing Association (YNA) Secretary Samina Khushi.
Warraich said Services Hospital Medical College, Lahore (SHMCL) and SZMCH were both approved in 2003. “SHMCL was completed in a few years whereas SZMCH is still incomplete 10 years after it was approved,” he said.
He demanded that funds be released for the construction of college’s new building. He said if the demands were not met in two weeks, they would stop working.
The Young Doctors Association president said parliamentarians from Rahim Yar Khan were in the college’s board of management but “they do not seem interested in the matters of the hospital.”
Imran Arshad, said that ventilator at Shaikh Zayed Medical College Hospital had not been working for two years. He said the administration had also not been disposing of hospital waste properly.
Young Nursing Association President Saima Naz said the nurses had not been given uniforms and diet allowance for 10 years. She also demanded a fresh service structure for midwives.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 6th, 2013.
“The chief minister should constitute a commission to investigate corruption at Shaikh Zayed Medical College Hospital (SZMCH),” Young Doctors’ Association President Dr Shabbir Warraich said on Friday.
He was speaking at a press conference where he was accompanied by Employees’ Welfare Association (EWA) President Imran Arshad and Young Nursing Association (YNA) Secretary Samina Khushi.
Warraich said Services Hospital Medical College, Lahore (SHMCL) and SZMCH were both approved in 2003. “SHMCL was completed in a few years whereas SZMCH is still incomplete 10 years after it was approved,” he said.
He demanded that funds be released for the construction of college’s new building. He said if the demands were not met in two weeks, they would stop working.
The Young Doctors Association president said parliamentarians from Rahim Yar Khan were in the college’s board of management but “they do not seem interested in the matters of the hospital.”
Imran Arshad, said that ventilator at Shaikh Zayed Medical College Hospital had not been working for two years. He said the administration had also not been disposing of hospital waste properly.
Young Nursing Association President Saima Naz said the nurses had not been given uniforms and diet allowance for 10 years. She also demanded a fresh service structure for midwives.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 6th, 2013.