Thousands of poor patients in Rawalpindi
division have been facing a lot of troubles in getting free of cost medical
treatment in the Allied Hospitals mainly due to the regular shortage of
medicine.
While the Punjab government and Provincial Health Department are doing nothing to resolve the persistent healthcare crisis in these hospitals - District Headquarters Hospital, Benazir Bhutto Hospital and the city’s largest Holy Family Hospital.
During a survey conducted by TheNation on Thursday in OPDs of AHs, revealed that the medicines shortage hit the pharmacies very hard, specifically noting the recurrent problem of stock shortages in essential drugs such as anti-biotics, analgesic/anti-pyratics, anti-diabetic, Anti-Asthamatic, GIT drugs, multi-vitamins, eye/ear/skin preparation, cardiovascular and miscellaneous drugs.
The other missed drugs included cough syrups, creams like Polifex used for wounds and skin related deceases, the capsules and tablets such as Augmentin, Amoxil, Spril, Dysoprin, Clantics,The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. Brufen, Peracetamol, Buscopan, Cyproxin,One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles. Cyprohoycine, Cefixime, Napril, Lansperacol and many others.
The Outdoor Patient Departments of the AHs are visited by tens of thousands ailing people daily including infants, old aged males and females and youngsters from the four districts and even from Kashmir, Gilgit-Biltistan for medical treatment but are taunted and sent back by the pharmacists saying “The all prescribed medicines are not available as pharmacies are running short of essential drugs. You should buy the medicines from the medical stores outside the hospital by your own”.
Moreover, it was also learnt that, the pharmacies have been providing many patients the poor quality and cheap medicines that were also shoddy.
Only few capsules, tablets and syrups are available for the patients in the pharmacies of AHs.
Scores of patients and their attendants expressed their anger over the medicine shortage and demanded of Chief Minister (CM) Punjab and Provincial Health Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Secretary Health Punjab Arif Nadeem to have a mercy look at the economically crunched common citizens. The sources in health sector have accused the government of compounding the shortages by failing to provide funds earmarked for drugs and medical supplies.
A pharmacist, on condition of anonymity, said that the situation in these three teaching hospitals was as much as bad that no cough or wound hailing cream was present in the pharmacies.
Leashing out at the government as well as hospitals’ big wheels’ negligence and mismanagement, a woman Shazia Khan, while grabbing her 3-year-old daughter outside the pharmacy at HFH, told this scribe “I have been visiting the hospital for last one month to show my sick baby, who suffering with multiple deceases, and doctors always suggested me to get medicines from pharmacy. But here nothing is available.”
She said, “Today the doctor prescribed Cefim tablet for my baby but still the medicine is not available in the drugs store.”
Two female patients Mehnaz Bibi, aged 14, and Shehnaz, aged 15, said that they were suffering pain in throat, were examined by doctors and suggested to take medicines from the hospital pharmacy. At the DHQ Hospital Raja Bazaar, Wajid, a patient with complaints of abdominal arch and was prescribed capsule Spril by the doctors at OPD, said that the pharmacist had refused him to give the dose and asked him to buy from outside. He said that it has become a routine drama in the hospital that patients were asked to get medicines free from hospital pharmacy but the pharmacist taunted the patients and sent them back home with empty hands.
“There is a serious shortage of diabetic medicines. I have been prescribed a medicine Napril by a doctor in Diabetic Clinic to the pharmacy. But here I have been told the medicine is not available and I will have to buy it from outside,” said Rehmat Bibi, a patient, standing with distressed face having the OPD slip in her hands near the pharmacy of BBH.
She said that she belonged to a very poor family and could not afford private medical treatment.
When contacted, Rawalpindi Medical College (RMC) Acting Principal and AHs Chief Executive Dr Afzal Farooqi, however, admitted the shortage of essential medicines in pharmacies of AHs. He said that to cope with the situation, he had held a meeting of all the Medical Superintendents (MSs) and the purchasing officers and reviewed the situation.
He said that purchasing drugs beyond the budget had worsened the situation and the patients were facing hardships in free of cost medical care. He informed that the meeting of Board of Management (BoM) would be convened on December 15, in which all the matter would be tabled and find out any suitable solution to overwhelm the crises.
On a query, Dr Farooqi said, “I have assumed my charge a few days back. All the faults cannot be corrected in one or two days. It will take 10 to 15 days,Our technology gives rtls systems developers the ability. after which the medicines will be available to the patients in AHs.”
Publicly, Syrian officials maintain that the Assad regime would never use chemical weapons against the Syrian people. On Thursday, one member of the regime, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Maqdad, told Lebanese television that “the United States and some European States” were fabricating the chemical-weapons scare to create a “pretext” for intervention in the conflict.If you have a fondness for china mosaic brimming with romantic roses,
US officials have to consider all the possible motivations behind Assad’s actions, military experts say. But some are confident the US would act preemptively if it was convinced that Assad was on the verge of launching a chemical attack.
“If [the US] had knowledge of them loading these weapons onto planes, they’d go in and take them out right away, I’d expect to see that,” says Lawrence Korb, a defense analyst at the Center for American Progress in Washington. “The problem is that you’d have to have very good intelligence on where to go to get them.”
But Blair says he can envision a range of ways the US might respond to a chemical attack.
The “fast route,” he says,High quality stone mosaic tiles. would be to launch a “punitive” strike in retaliation and to try to take out Assad. The “longer route,” he adds, might be to return to the United Nations Security Council to get support for international intervention – support Russia and China have denied so far.
“There’s such a taboo against chemical-weapons use that you’d have to assume that Russia and China would no longer block UN action,” he says.
While the Punjab government and Provincial Health Department are doing nothing to resolve the persistent healthcare crisis in these hospitals - District Headquarters Hospital, Benazir Bhutto Hospital and the city’s largest Holy Family Hospital.
During a survey conducted by TheNation on Thursday in OPDs of AHs, revealed that the medicines shortage hit the pharmacies very hard, specifically noting the recurrent problem of stock shortages in essential drugs such as anti-biotics, analgesic/anti-pyratics, anti-diabetic, Anti-Asthamatic, GIT drugs, multi-vitamins, eye/ear/skin preparation, cardiovascular and miscellaneous drugs.
The other missed drugs included cough syrups, creams like Polifex used for wounds and skin related deceases, the capsules and tablets such as Augmentin, Amoxil, Spril, Dysoprin, Clantics,The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. Brufen, Peracetamol, Buscopan, Cyproxin,One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles. Cyprohoycine, Cefixime, Napril, Lansperacol and many others.
The Outdoor Patient Departments of the AHs are visited by tens of thousands ailing people daily including infants, old aged males and females and youngsters from the four districts and even from Kashmir, Gilgit-Biltistan for medical treatment but are taunted and sent back by the pharmacists saying “The all prescribed medicines are not available as pharmacies are running short of essential drugs. You should buy the medicines from the medical stores outside the hospital by your own”.
Moreover, it was also learnt that, the pharmacies have been providing many patients the poor quality and cheap medicines that were also shoddy.
Only few capsules, tablets and syrups are available for the patients in the pharmacies of AHs.
Scores of patients and their attendants expressed their anger over the medicine shortage and demanded of Chief Minister (CM) Punjab and Provincial Health Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Secretary Health Punjab Arif Nadeem to have a mercy look at the economically crunched common citizens. The sources in health sector have accused the government of compounding the shortages by failing to provide funds earmarked for drugs and medical supplies.
A pharmacist, on condition of anonymity, said that the situation in these three teaching hospitals was as much as bad that no cough or wound hailing cream was present in the pharmacies.
Leashing out at the government as well as hospitals’ big wheels’ negligence and mismanagement, a woman Shazia Khan, while grabbing her 3-year-old daughter outside the pharmacy at HFH, told this scribe “I have been visiting the hospital for last one month to show my sick baby, who suffering with multiple deceases, and doctors always suggested me to get medicines from pharmacy. But here nothing is available.”
She said, “Today the doctor prescribed Cefim tablet for my baby but still the medicine is not available in the drugs store.”
Two female patients Mehnaz Bibi, aged 14, and Shehnaz, aged 15, said that they were suffering pain in throat, were examined by doctors and suggested to take medicines from the hospital pharmacy. At the DHQ Hospital Raja Bazaar, Wajid, a patient with complaints of abdominal arch and was prescribed capsule Spril by the doctors at OPD, said that the pharmacist had refused him to give the dose and asked him to buy from outside. He said that it has become a routine drama in the hospital that patients were asked to get medicines free from hospital pharmacy but the pharmacist taunted the patients and sent them back home with empty hands.
“There is a serious shortage of diabetic medicines. I have been prescribed a medicine Napril by a doctor in Diabetic Clinic to the pharmacy. But here I have been told the medicine is not available and I will have to buy it from outside,” said Rehmat Bibi, a patient, standing with distressed face having the OPD slip in her hands near the pharmacy of BBH.
She said that she belonged to a very poor family and could not afford private medical treatment.
When contacted, Rawalpindi Medical College (RMC) Acting Principal and AHs Chief Executive Dr Afzal Farooqi, however, admitted the shortage of essential medicines in pharmacies of AHs. He said that to cope with the situation, he had held a meeting of all the Medical Superintendents (MSs) and the purchasing officers and reviewed the situation.
He said that purchasing drugs beyond the budget had worsened the situation and the patients were facing hardships in free of cost medical care. He informed that the meeting of Board of Management (BoM) would be convened on December 15, in which all the matter would be tabled and find out any suitable solution to overwhelm the crises.
On a query, Dr Farooqi said, “I have assumed my charge a few days back. All the faults cannot be corrected in one or two days. It will take 10 to 15 days,Our technology gives rtls systems developers the ability. after which the medicines will be available to the patients in AHs.”
Publicly, Syrian officials maintain that the Assad regime would never use chemical weapons against the Syrian people. On Thursday, one member of the regime, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Maqdad, told Lebanese television that “the United States and some European States” were fabricating the chemical-weapons scare to create a “pretext” for intervention in the conflict.If you have a fondness for china mosaic brimming with romantic roses,
US officials have to consider all the possible motivations behind Assad’s actions, military experts say. But some are confident the US would act preemptively if it was convinced that Assad was on the verge of launching a chemical attack.
“If [the US] had knowledge of them loading these weapons onto planes, they’d go in and take them out right away, I’d expect to see that,” says Lawrence Korb, a defense analyst at the Center for American Progress in Washington. “The problem is that you’d have to have very good intelligence on where to go to get them.”
But Blair says he can envision a range of ways the US might respond to a chemical attack.
The “fast route,” he says,High quality stone mosaic tiles. would be to launch a “punitive” strike in retaliation and to try to take out Assad. The “longer route,” he adds, might be to return to the United Nations Security Council to get support for international intervention – support Russia and China have denied so far.
“There’s such a taboo against chemical-weapons use that you’d have to assume that Russia and China would no longer block UN action,” he says.
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