KMC sanatorium on a downward spiral
The sanatorium was was primarily set-up by philanthropists in 1886 and named Heera Nand Leprosy Hospital. PHOTO: ATHAR KHAN/EXPRESS
KARACHI: Elderly patients being treated during a Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Leprosy Hospital in Manghopir pronounced that until it was looked after by a Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre (MALC), underneath a organisation of Dr Ruth Pfau, a customary of services was excellent.
The patients would get a healthy breakfast – bread, eggs, butter and one litre of divert – any day, as good as lunch and dinner. However, a conditions have not been a same given a KMC took over a sole specialised diagnosis trickery for skin diseases and it worsened with any flitting year.
The sanatorium government says that they humour from a necessity of funds. “They’ve usually given us this bed and yield a sauce facility,” a studious who has been vital in a sanatorium for a past 20 years told The Express Tribune.
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“We are grateful that a gratification organisations yield us food twice a day,” another studious said, immersion praises on a Alamagir Welfare Trust and Saylani Welfare Trust.
An worker during a facility, Muhammad Yaseen, pronounced that a private executive they hired stopped providing food to a patients 4 years ago as a KMC unsuccessful to transparent their dues. He pronounced Saylani provides lunch 7 days a week and Alamgir provides cooking 4 days a week.
According to Yaseen, for a remaining days they interest to locals for food. “No permanent arrangements for breakfast have been made, withdrawal a patients to rest on usually dual dishes a day,” he said.
An central of a hospital, requesting anonymity, pronounced a new 50-bed retard for a diagnosis of spreading diseases was set adult years ago.
There are apart wards for masculine and womanlike patients. PHOTO: ATHAR KHAN/EXPRESS
“A hostel for nursing staff was also built though a buildings are entertainment dust, as a new retard has nonetheless to be done organic by a management,” he said, adding that apparatus for a laboratory and blood bank have not been used in years.
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The central pronounced that with a construction of a new block, a strength of beds in a sanatorium had been increasing from 200 to 250, though a KMC unsuccessful to allot supports in a bill for a employees of a hospital’s spreading diseases department, claiming that a retard has not been handed over to them by a engineering department.
Besides providing specialised diagnosis for leprosy patients, a series of ailments such as hepatitis, tuberculosis, eye and other skin diseases are also diagnosed and treated during a leprosy hospital.
“Leprosy has not finished in Pakistan, instead it has been controlled,” Dr Muhammad Ali Abbasi, KMC’s comparison executive of medical and health who also worked on a leprosy control programme with Dr Pfau for 26 years, said, arguing that a vaccine for this illness had not been detected yet.
According to him, that is because patients with leprosy are still entrance for treatment. He pronounced a sanatorium was primarily set-up by philanthropists in 1886 and named Heera Nand Leprosy Hospital. In 1960 it was eliminated to a KMC. Later, diagnosis and monitoring was handed over to Dr Pfau in a early 70s compartment 2009. Medicine and food were also supposing by a MALC, he added.
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The doctor, who is timid soon, is confident about a predestine of his proposal. “Two months ago a KMC legislature upheld a fortitude about mutation of a Manghopir sanatorium into a investigate and training hospital for spreading diseases.” He pronounced 90% of a work on a building is finish and once all is finalised staff will be hired.
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