HYDERABAD, March 11: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has formed a committee to identify lacking facilities in terms of professional expertise in district government hospitals so that the same can be provided to the hospitals in collaboration with the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Science.

The committee is head by health EDO Dr Nazar Mohammad Junejo and medical superintendents of Bhittai, Paretabad, Qasimabad and Kohisar hospitals are its members.

The body was formed at a meeting of the district government’s joint committee for technical assistance for hospitals held at the nazim‘s secretariat on Friday.

Mr Jamil directed the committee to prepare its report in two parts, in first part point out professional lacking facilities of immediate nature and in the second, fulfil legal and professional formalities needed for affiliation of district government hospitals with the LUMHS. The committee was asked to the submit the report within three days.

He asked the committee members to collect the data of available medical facilities for different diseases.

The nazim said the district government had good hospital buildings with equipment but due to lack of specialists and trained staff, the resources were being wasted and could not be utilized for patients.

He said the government was giving priority to the health sector and had made abandoned health institutions functional in the first phase. In the second phase, he said, the government negotiated with the management of the LUMHS to get its big hospitals affiliated with the university to ensure efficient health delivery to people.

Mr Jamil said that keeping in view the shortage of FCPS doctors in district hospitals, the local government would ask the Sindh government for posting FCPS doctors in the hospitals. He also asked the LUMHS to arrange training programmes for capacity building of doctors and paramedical staff of the hospitals.

Sindh health services director-general Dr Hadi Bux Jatoi stressed the need for increasing capacity of existing hospitals of the district government to avail services of specialists of the LUMHS.

Prof Nazir Ahmad Memon, chairman of the cardiology department of the LUMHS, said that in addition to its own health services, his university was keen to serve ailing people through district government hospitals within its framework.

He asked the district government to identify lacking facilities in its hospitals which would be provided by the university.