Shazia Marri condemns federal govt for taking over control of three hospitals of Sindh

Islamabad: Central Information Secretary Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians and MNA Shazia Atta Marri has strongly condemned the taking over of three key hospitals of Sindh province by the federal government.

She said in her statement that Sindh government is running Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC), the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) and the National Health of Child Health (NICH) in the best possible way and also providing best health facilities to the masses in the province.

She added that people from every corner of the country and even from abroad come to Karachi hospitals for the provision of best health facilities. “These hospitals are being providing free of cost and quality medical treatment to the poor and middle class people.

She further said that free and quality medical treatment is being snatched away by privatizing these hospitals. She said that the prices of almost everything was raised firstly and now incompetent federal government has been planning to make treatment more expensive for poors. She maintained that every sector of the country is being affected due to the incompetence of the federal government.

Shazia Marri said that taking over these main health facilities by unconstitutional ordinance without waiting for the final verdict of the Supreme Court filled by Sindh government is highly condemnedable. She also questioned the federal government that what sort of solution has been generated yet for PIMS and Polyclinic Islamabad by federal government? and questioned that how many standard hospitals have been set up in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by the PTI-led government in eight years?