Sawan Khaskheli Badin
At least more 60 thousand poor patients of districts Badin, Mithi, Thatta and Sujawal on a monthly basis suffered as District Headquarter Hospital which was renamed as ‘Dr. Sikander Ali Mandhro Hospital’ Badin earlier called as Indus Hospital faced a severe shortage of funds for the last two years and ran on brief finance only.
According to sources, beset by serious financial troubles for the past two years, District Headquarter Hospital, DrSikander Ali Mandhro the largest public sector hospital in the coastal region of Sindh is largely being run on delaying Government assistance that has caused patients a lot of problems, it emerged during a media briefing on Saturday.
The hospital run by the Indus Network (IN) has a daily visitor count of over 2,000 patients. The credible sources said that the 20-wards and 344-bed district headquarters hospital in Badin did not receive the approved budget timely with the result that all units of the hospital, including mobile units and two container hospitals Matli and Khorwah were shutter down when the District Headquarter Hospital faced an acute shortage of life-saving medicines and other essential items.
Funding constraints, it has come into knowledge, had seriously affected every service of the health facility including emergency wards of male.
