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All set to decide fate of two important healthcare projects
Ratodero, June 23, 2011 (PPI): The fate of two important projects of Chandka Medical College Hospital would be decided on Saturday.
In this regard a meeting has been convened under the chairmanship of the Additional Chief Secretary (Development), Planning & Development Department, Government of Sindh, on Saturday 25th June to decide the fate of two major ADP projects of Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH), Larkana: Establishment of Skin Diseases Complex & Construction of Hepatology and Dental Departments (ADP Scheme No: 1365), and construction of Neuro Science Complex (ADP Scheme No: 1363), costing Rs134.916 million and Rs214.635million, respectively.
Both the schemes were approved during 2010-11 but their administrative approval was yet to be granted by the Health and Planning departments and the required funds were not released during the current fiscal year, putting the projects in doldrums.
Sources said some differences between Vice Chancellor (VC) Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Medical University (SBBMU) Prof: Akbar Haider Soomro and Medical Superintendent (MS) CMCH Dr. Zulfiqar Siyal surfaced when the VC wrote a letter to the health secretary on 18th March asserting that the CMCH is already overcrowded without enough space to house these institutes and as the SBBMU has acquired 220 acres at Arija village along Moen-Jo-Daro Road some 16km from Larkana town hence both the schemes should be established there.
He further quoted a letter of the SBBMU Dermatology Department chairman, who also endorsed that the Dermatology Department should be established at the new university site. The VC said he has consulted with the MS and taken into confidence; however, the MS denied this in his letter sent to health secretary on May 18.
The MS in his letter said that both the schemes have been approved by the PDWP in its meeting held on 21.4.2011.
He said that this largest teaching hospital of Upper Sindh has already scattered at five different places in the town and patients suffer badly due to shifting from one ward to another. He said the sixth location of new departments would certainly add to their miseries of patient, who arrive here from far flung & remote areas to get specialized medical treatment.
He said the hospital has space and land available where these two projects can be established easily.
He said in case the projects were set up at the proposed site of SBBMU, the most affected would be the House Officers who will have to commute long distances to discharge their duties.
Many senior doctors are also not in favour of setting up new departments outside the town; however, Larkana town is being sprawling with a fast pace and many people believe the proposed site of SBBMU at Arija Village would become thickly populated city area of Larkana within a couple of years.
In this regard a meeting has been convened under the chairmanship of the Additional Chief Secretary (Development), Planning & Development Department, Government of Sindh, on Saturday 25th June to decide the fate of two major ADP projects of Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH), Larkana: Establishment of Skin Diseases Complex & Construction of Hepatology and Dental Departments (ADP Scheme No: 1365), and construction of Neuro Science Complex (ADP Scheme No: 1363), costing Rs134.916 million and Rs214.635million, respectively.
Both the schemes were approved during 2010-11 but their administrative approval was yet to be granted by the Health and Planning departments and the required funds were not released during the current fiscal year, putting the projects in doldrums.
Sources said some differences between Vice Chancellor (VC) Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Medical University (SBBMU) Prof: Akbar Haider Soomro and Medical Superintendent (MS) CMCH Dr. Zulfiqar Siyal surfaced when the VC wrote a letter to the health secretary on 18th March asserting that the CMCH is already overcrowded without enough space to house these institutes and as the SBBMU has acquired 220 acres at Arija village along Moen-Jo-Daro Road some 16km from Larkana town hence both the schemes should be established there.
He further quoted a letter of the SBBMU Dermatology Department chairman, who also endorsed that the Dermatology Department should be established at the new university site. The VC said he has consulted with the MS and taken into confidence; however, the MS denied this in his letter sent to health secretary on May 18.
The MS in his letter said that both the schemes have been approved by the PDWP in its meeting held on 21.4.2011.
He said that this largest teaching hospital of Upper Sindh has already scattered at five different places in the town and patients suffer badly due to shifting from one ward to another. He said the sixth location of new departments would certainly add to their miseries of patient, who arrive here from far flung & remote areas to get specialized medical treatment.
He said the hospital has space and land available where these two projects can be established easily.
He said in case the projects were set up at the proposed site of SBBMU, the most affected would be the House Officers who will have to commute long distances to discharge their duties.
Many senior doctors are also not in favour of setting up new departments outside the town; however, Larkana town is being sprawling with a fast pace and many people believe the proposed site of SBBMU at Arija Village would become thickly populated city area of Larkana within a couple of years.
