Sindh government on Wednesday provided eight ambulances equipped with ventilators to major public sector hospitals of the province. These ambulances have been provided to Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK), Sindh Government Qatar Hospital, Orangi Town, Lyari General Hospital, Liaquat University Hospital, Hyderabad, Civil Hospital, Mirpurkhas, People's Medical College Hospital, Shaheed Benazirabad, Ghulam Muhammad Meher Medical College Hospital, Sukkur and Chandka Medical College Hospital, Larkana.
A ceremony to hand over the ambulances to the medical superintendents was held here at I.I Depot. Addressing the ceremony, Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed said that there were many incidents where patients die during their shifting to even the nearest healthcare facility due to non-availability of ventilators in the ambulances.
He said keeping in view the situation the scheme for provision of ventilator-fitted ambulance was included in provincial annual development programme with a cost of Rs 51.428 million. He informed that a similar scheme for provision of 23 such ambulances has also been proposed in the annual development plan of the year under view. He said that establishment of trauma centers equipped with ambulance fleet was also badly needed in various districts.