Source: Dawn
Date: 13 Aug, 2010
LAHORE, Aug 12: Children Hospital patients have been suffering a lot due to shortage of around 100 doctors in the facility, including senior pediatricians, surgeons and anesthetics for long, sources told Dawn.
At present there are 38 different specialties related to medical, surgical and diagnostic fields in the hospital.
Sources said eight seats of associate professors, 34 of assistant professors, 44 of senior registrars, and three posts of demonstrators were lying vacant in the hospital, badly affecting the quality of healthcare services being provided to the patients at the facility.
Highlighting gravity of the situation, the sources said some senior doctors of the hospital had gone abroad for better salaries, while a few others had got themselves transferred to other hospitals to avoid immense workload.
Giving details, sources said, out of total eight seats of associate professors, two each are lying vacant in the physical medicine and rehabilitation and paeds medicine departments, and one each in pediatric cardiology, paeds anesthesiology, paeds neurology and immunology departments.
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