The Vice Chancellor Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences Jamshoro Professor Noshad A Shaikh presided over the meeting of Hospital Management Committee held on Tuesday at Civil Hospital Hyderabad, attended by the Medical Superintendent, Deans and the heads of all Clinical departments of the University.
The Vice Chancellor said that the quality of patient care is essentially determined by the quality of infrastructure, quality of training, competence of personnel and efficiency of operational systems. The fundamental requirement is the adoption of a system that is 'patient orientated'. Existing problems in health care relate to both medical and non-medical factors and a comprehensive system that improves both aspects must be implemented.
The Vice Chancellor directed the consultants to make it sure to visit their respective wards in the evening on daily basis to provide expert opinion to the patients admitted to the hospital so that the best possible medical services can be offered from the university to the people. He further advised to ensure the presence of consultants in the Out Patient Department of the hospital on regular basis.
To overcome the shortage of nursing staff in the hospital it was decided that the Health Department shall be approached to fill up the posts of Staff Nurses lying vacant and one year Internship for the Nurses in a teaching Hospital to be made compulsory. To facilitate the people of Jamshoro and the surrounding areas the Vice Chancellor announced to establish Cardiac Out Patient Department at Liaquat University Hospital Jamshoro, which shall be made functional within a week.
Medical Superintendent Liaquat University Hospital Dr Rafique-ul-Hassan Khokhar expressed that the hospital is committed to providing the safest and highest quality care to the patients. He informed that all the necessary medicines are available in the hospital therefore no medicine should be prescribed from outside so that there is less financial burden on the admitted patients.
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