LARKANA: The B-Scan machine of Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH) Eye Department has been dysfunctional since the past several weeks and no repairs have been made thus far despite Medical Superintendent (MS) being informed about it.
The hospital facilitates more than 12 districts of rural Sindh. People from these districts arrive here from remote areas to get eye treatments. Since the machine remains dysfunctional, the patients are asked to get the B-Scan test from private medical centers which cost a lot.
Out of the three dysfunctional B-Scan machines one was procured by the Ophthalmology Department doctors through contribution which also went out of order within six months.
According to the patients’ attendants at the hospital, at least 15 to 20 operations are made daily and lenses are fixed but now operation theater remains open only for emergency purposes.
The poor patients who cannot afford cost of the lenses are provided lenses out of Rs20 million Zakat budget which is released to the CMCH in two equal installments annually.
