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PIMS doctors without water for 10 days

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) administration seems so busily engaged ensuring ‘good patient care’ at the city’s largest government-run medical facility that its staff feels ignored. Prolonged suspension of water supply to two PIMS hostels has left around 300 doctors and trainee doctors living there fuming because the administration’s failure to repair a tube well have forced them into fetching water for routine chores from far-away places. “We’ve been without water for the last ten days but no one at the administration wing bothers. Our repeated complaints for repair of the tube well supplying water to the hostel have yet to draw an apposite response,” said a doctor living in a hostel. He said the problem had adversely impacted on their performance and thus, patient care at the hospital. Another hostel occupant, a trainee doctor, said unavailability of water coupled with frequent power outages had made life miserable for them. Dr Wasim Khawaja, a spokesman for the PIMS, outright denied non-supply of water at the hospital hostels. “I tell you on good authority that water is smoothly being supplied to the main hospital and adjacent hostels, so whosoever talks about water shortage at the hostels doesn’t tell the truth,” he said. staff report

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