Gizri residents oppose KMC’s bid to take back maternity home
Karachi
December 14, 2020
Residents and social activists in the Gizri neighborhood have expressed dismay over the Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC)’s recent decision to take back control of the Gizri Maternity Hospital from a charity that has been running the medical facility since 2014.
In 2014, the KMC had given the responsibility of running the affairs of the maternity home to the Falah Welfare Trust, a charity, under the public-private partnership for fifteen years.
“Under the charity’s supervision, huge improvements in the health facility s performance have been observed if compared with the KMC-run other maternity homes,” said Riaz Hussain, a social activist in Gizri. “We still remember that there was no labour room and other medical facilities. Medical staff used to come from the Sobhraj Maternity Hospital from Burns Road to the Gizri’s facility.”