Multan faces acute shortage of medicines
Patients of psychiatric problems face problems due to unavailability of drugs
MULTAN:
Several medicines used in the treatment of mental illness and life-saving injections have disappeared from the markets in South Punjab, including Multan.
The Punjab government has not taken any practical steps to ensure the availability of medicines in the market.
According to sources, the Drug Control Department of the Health Department of Multan has been affected by repeated transfers. Meanwhile, the citizens have been complaining of shortage of injections and medicines.
The sources said blood thinners and injectable collagen and heparin used for various heart diseases have become rare in South Punjab.
Sindh Information and Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has directed the Karachi Development Authority director general to launch an operation to get the amenity plots in the city.
Rehri Goth residents decry shortage of medicines
Free medical camp deepens realisation of lack of healthcare facilities
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A medical camp, offering free healthcare services, at the Sindh government hospital in Rehri Goth, pronounced the lack of basic facilities available to residents in the area.
Decrying a lack of healthcare facilities, a resident, Younis Khaskheli, questioned, “Why should there be the need for a non-governmental organisation (NGO)- Greenstar Social Marketing (GSM) in this case - to set up a medical camp here?”
Then, answering his own question, he spat, “Because this hospital doesn’t function properly. This is a dispensary, not a hospital!”
Man knocked dead by train
Karachi
December 27, 2020
A man was killed by a train on the railway tracks near the Natha Khan flyover in the Drigh Road Railway Police post remits on Saturday.
Police said that the man fell into a nullah after the train hit him. His body was retrieved by rescuers and transported to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for an autopsy.
He was later identified as 50-year-old Rahim, son of Fazal Amin. He was a resident of the same locality. An investigation is underway.
Separately, the body of an elderly man, identified as 68-year-old Jalil, son of Jamil, was found in the Nazimabad locality. The body was rushed to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Police said that the cause of the death was yet to be ascertained.