Karachi hospital to be refurbished
Karachi governor saddened by plight of health facility
After being heart-broken on seeing the plight of Karachi’s third largest public health facility, Sindh Governor Kamran Khan Tessori has vowed to use his offices to mobilise government resources required to refurbish the hospital on an emergency basis.
Tessori, who assumed the office of the provincial governor last month, visited for the second time the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) in the Nazimabad area of the city that is run by Karachi Metropolitan Corporation. The ASH has been in a sheer state of neglect for the many years due to a lack of financial resources and weak governance. Karachi Administrator Barrister Murtaza Wahab drove the Governor to the ASH. The Governor spent time with the patients and their attendants and also interacted with the doctors and para-medical staff.
Talking to journalists, the
Governor conceded that he was saddened and upset on seeing the ASH in a poor state when he visited the health facility for the first time last month.
Services compromised
Tessori said that he had come to know that provision of necessary health care services had been compromised in every department of the hospital so much so that it was unable to perform life-saving surgeries as the operation theatres of the facility were in a bad shape.
He said that after his first visit to the ASH, he contacted the leaders of the ruling Pakistan
People’s Party including Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, and informed him about the plight of the hospital.
Tessori told the journalists that he was pleased that all the concerned quarters in the government including Karachi’s Administrator had assured him of fullest support for the cause of the ASH on a war footing.
He said that he would continue to make efforts till the ASH attained the status of elite private hospitals in Karachi, given the fact that this public health facility catered to a large population in the city belonging to low-income families.