NAWABSHAH, Nov 26: The medical superintendent, People’s Medical College Hospital (PMCH), Nawabshah, Illahi Bux Soomro, has demanded the government for increasing the budget of the hospital, which at present was not much.

He said this at a meeting of the District Council, Nawabshah, which was held at the Pir Qurban Ali Hall under the chairmanship of its convener, Khalid Hussain Channa, on Monday.

The medical superintendent, while briefing about the problems regarding health, said that around 31,500 patients were admitted to the PMCH every year on an average, and for such a huge number of patients an annual budget of Rs5.1 million was too little.

He said that an amount of Rs1.75 million had been received as Zakat fund, and added that out of this amount Rs8,000 to Rs10,000 was spent on each orthopaedics and neurosurgery patient.

He said that many posts of doctors and registrars had been lying vacant in the hospital.

The council approved Rs20,000 for a blind school.

GROWERS: The growers of Bit-Maro Pipe-2, Nusrat sub-division, Shahpur Chakar, on Monday demanded of the prime minister and governor to take strict action against the irrigation staff posted there.