BAHAWALPUR:
One in all South Punjab’s largest healthcare services, Bahawal Victoria Hospital, is dealing with a scarcity of medicines, leaving sufferers with out important free medicines.
The scarcity has prompted misery amongst sufferers and their households, who’re pressured to buy costly medicines from non-public pharmacies.
The hospital’s outpatient division (OPD) can also be affected, with 52 important medicines unavailable, together with antibiotics, paracetamol syrup, cough syrups, and laxatives for kids.
In line with Medical Superintendent (MS) Dr Aamir Bukhari, the scarcity is because of an absence of funds. “We requested Rs1.25 billion for medicines this 12 months, however solely Rs530 million was allotted,” he revealed. He defined that 60% of the finances had already been spent on buying oxygen and dialysis disposables, leaving no funds at no cost medicines.
Sufferers arriving from distant areas are dealing with hardship as a result of unavailability of medicines.
Vital provides, together with insulin, psychiatric medication, gastroenterology remedies, and pores and skin illness medicines, are lacking from the OPD.
Within the gynaecology division, important dietary supplements like calcium, multivitamins, and fever medicines for each kids and adults are unavailable. Dr Bukhari additionally disclosed that Rs630 million from final 12 months’s medical provide funds are nonetheless pending, worsening the disaster.
The hospital, which handles over 3,500 emergency instances and eight,000 OPD sufferers each day, can also be struggling to supply injectable medicines for indoor sufferers on account of monetary constraints.