KARACHI: Sindh’s largest tertiary-care hospital, Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK), has been facing an acute shortage of skilled doctors, nurses, paramedics and technicians to counter the coronavirus emergency in Sindh. The official, requesting not to be named, revealed that 90 posts of doctors, 100 posts of staff nurses, 150 posts of paramedical staff, five posts of grade-15 support staff, 100 posts of sweepers and a few administrative seats have been lying vacant in this teaching hospital for the last several years. Therefore, the hospital urgently needs skilled health workers who can cater to the patients in an emergency. He demanded the Sindh government recruit medical staff on a permanent or ad-hoc basis to deal with the situation in Sindh. He lamented that a summary to regularise staff from grade-1 to grade-16, recruited a year and a half ago, had still not been approved by the Sindh health department.

Source: Pakistan Today April 07, 2020 17:15 UTC