A severe shortage of medical and administrative staff at Jinnah Hospital has put critically ill patients at grave risk.
According to details, Jinnah Hospital is facing ‘shortage’ of nursing staff especially in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) wards, posing a threat to critically ill patients.
Despite the availability of ventilators in the medical facility, ‘sufficient staff’ is not present to operate the machinery.
The sources said that six out of 10 ventilators at the medical ICU are operational, while only eight out of 24 ventilators at the surgical ICU are functional.
At Clinical ICU, only seven ventilators out of a total of 15, are in working condition, while at Neuro Trauma Unit, only 6 ventilators are available, out of which only1 is functional, the sources said.
They further added that the medical ICU requires 58 nursing staff, but only 8 are currently available and overall a total of 24 ventilators across the hospital remain non-operational due to the unavailability of trained staff, including consultants and nurses.
