Health Minister asked to take notice of mismanagement at NKB hospital

F.P Report

PESHAWAR: Residents of Peshawar City and Kohat road area has asked Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Health Shahram Khan Tarakai to take notice of the mismanagement and lack of relevant staff in Nasirullah Khan Babar hospital (City hospital Kohat road).

The residents of the area told media persons that their patient were mistreated in the hospital due to mismanagement on part of Medical Superintend (MS) and his subordinate paramedical staff. They alleged that a paramedical staff and doctors scuffled with each other when paramedics refused to work in the irrelevant department of the hospital.

They also alleged that children specialists doctors have been appointed in the Orthopaedic department, while Medical Specialists (MOs) were working in the surgical department which they termed incompetence of the respective Medical Superintendent (MS) and negligence on the part of the hospital administration Directorate of Health Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

They complained that despite having the facility standby power generator in the hospital, patients were being immensely suffered in excessive power outage. Unfortunately, the power generator was not being run due to absence of operator to run the generator and facilitate the patients, they said.

Regarding Medical Superintendent of the hospital, they stated that owing to negligence and incompetency of MS, the patients and attendants with them are faced with troubles and could not be facilitated.

It is pertinent to mention here that poor quality of treatment facilities in the government run hospital in provincial capital Peshawar under the nose of the Directorate of Health Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where mostly poor patients are visiting in large numbers from far flung areas of provincial metropolitan.

They demanded of the Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak, Minister for Health Shahram Khan Taraki, Secretary Health and other high-ups to take notice of the mismanagement and negligence on part of the hospital administration and address the miseries of ailing humanity.