4 percent of Sindh’s women die during pregnancy or delivery
KARACHI: Sindh has a four percent mortality rate in women during pregnancy mainly because there are not enough doctors, the Sindh government told the provincial assembly Thursday.
Provincial minister for health Syed Sardar Ahmed provided this information while responding to a supplementary question during question hour on the health department. He said that the government was working to overcome the shortage of doctors and has planned to recruit at 450 of them at the local level.
Answering different questions from Opposition members, Ahmed said that during the years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 about 14 women expired in district Sanghar during their pregnancies or deliveries. Similarly, 21 women died in district Mirpurkhas during the same period, four in district Umerkot and 49 in district Badin. According to him, district Hyderabad had the most casualties as 156 women lost their lives during their pregnancies.
In another written reply, the minister told the assembly that there were no MRI and CT Scan tests available in any Hyderabad government hospital. Ahmed also said that there had been no incident of anyone leaving any surgical instruments in a patient in any government hospital of Hyderabad during January to September 2006. However one incident took place in 2004 in which a patient was brought to Liaquat University Hospital on February 2, 2006 to be operated on for the removal of scissors left in her abdomen two years earlier. She did not survive.
In another query, he said no new hospital or dispensary has been sanctioned for Hyderabad district in the current financial year. However, he added, they have successfully upgraded and improved existing health facilities in the district hospitals and health centers, including the district government hospital, Qasimabad, district government hospital, Pareetabad, basic health units at the Latifabad No.10 and Liaquat Colony.
To another question, the minister disclosed that at present no standard procedure was available to open a private medical centre in the province. However, he added, an Accreditation and License Ordinance/Bill for private hospitals and clinics was being formed.
Source: Daily Times
Date:6/22/2007
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