The sanitary conditions inside and around the Civil Hospital Karachi are so dirty that it a miracle that patients at the hospital have not suffered an epidemic so far.
From the main entrance on Baba-e-Urdu Road to the backside exit and entrance where the Emergency and Casualty Ward are located, the roads and the streets around and inside the hospital are dirty and far below the minimum health standards required at such big hospitals.
The side wall inside the hospital building are very dimly lit while the waiting sheds are overcrowded not just with visitors and relatives of the patients but in such cases with even patients waiting to be admitted.
The accommodation situation in every ward of the CHK is most deplorable. There are long lines of people waiting to be admitted and the patients very often develop complications while waiting for admission.
In most cases the doctors and paramedical staff on duty is over-worked and the required strength of doctors and male and female nurses in each single ward and section of the hospital is much below the requirement.
The medicines within the hospital for patients reportedly consist of ordinary pain killers and various routine tablets and injections.