The centre had taken control of the port city’s three major hospitals in May following Supreme Court orders. In January, the apex court rejected a set of appeals, including one filed by the Sindh government, claiming the ownership of three major hospitals in Karachi in the wake of devolution of the health sector under the 18th Amendment. Therefore, according to the decision, the control of the three hospitals continued to remain with the federal government. ‘Centre refuses to run Karachi Circular Railway’After the June 12 federal budget, Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had also slammed the government for taking charge of the Karachi hospitals but not allocating the required budget for them. The SHC had declared the transfer of the hospitals to the Sindh province ‘unconstitutional’.

Source: The Express Tribune July 06, 2019 10:41 UTC