KARACHI, Jan 16: According to a recent report affirmed by the Lyari General Hospital staff, the security environment in and around the Lyari General Hospital has improved following the deployment of Rangers.
The Rangers personnel was deployed on the LGH premises in November last following repeated incidents of lawlessness creating harassment among staff members of the hospital.
Visitors and staff members have always blamed entry of unauthorized persons as the key factor for disturbing the working atmosphere in the hospital and as such had demanded after the last skirmish that no unauthorized person should be allowed to enter the hospital.
Consequently, the medical superintendent of LGH, Dr Mukhtiar Khawaja had raised the issue with the higher authorities of the Sindh Gover-nment.
Being perturbed over the insecure situation, doctors and staff at the hospital too had been agitating off and on against the acts of lawlessness which included robberies and hold ups with the hospital staff being the victims.
However, the MS claims that the situation has greatly improved after the deployment of Rangers,which was a demand made by the president of the Patients Welfare Society, Sher Mohammd Raees.
Supporting the deployment of Rangers and army at the hospital, he had suggested that entry/gate-passes should be issued to all visitors and that protective grills should be installed at the main entrance, hospital building, and around the nurses’ mess.
