KARACHI: Pathetic condition of the government hospitals in the province echoed in the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday and many lawmakers urged the provincial Health Department to improve its performance and to control corruption in the government hospitals. Saeed Khan Nizamani from PML-F tabled a resolution that the government’s Civil Hospital of Sanghar should be upgraded and specialist doctors be appointed there to provide better healthcare facilities to the people. He said dozens of posts of doctors and nurses have been lying vacant in the hospital and the provincial Health Department has yet to fill them. Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh also from the PML-F said not only the Civil Hospitals of Sanghar but other government hospitals in different areas depict the same sorrow picture of corruption and apathy. Quoting the example of the Civil Hospital Shikarpur, he said that the government hospitals lacked doctors, drugs and most importantly, honest administration. However, the Health Minister Jam Mahtab Dahar said that they had already asked the provincial Public Service Commission to hold exams and recommend candidates for these posts. Jam said that he has taken a lot of steps to end corruption from the provincial Health Department but some corrupt employees of his department were very powerful to be removed. The House sent three private bills, The Sindh Prohibition of Corporal Punishment Bill 2015 of Mahtab Akbar Rashdi (PML-F), and two bills of PML-F Member Nand Kumar, The Sindh Minorities Rights Commission Bill 2015, and The Sindh Criminal Law (protection of minorities) Bill 2015 to the respective standing committees. The Sindh Assembly passed the Metropolitan University Karachi Bill 2015 unanimously, which was against the admission policy of the Karachi University. According to details, PPP lawmaker Syed Faseeh Ahmed tabled the Metropolitan University Karachi Bill 2015 under supplementary agenda said that the provincial government should take notice of the introduction of the three categories ‘K’, ‘P’ and ‘S’ admission policies, which tried to deprive the right of admission of students of Sindh, belonging to parts of the province other than Karachi. The assembly rejected the contradictory and unconstitutional admission policy and demands that equal opportunities may be given to all districts of the province. Meanwhile, the motion given notice by Muhammad Hussain Khan of MQM was not opposed by the government and it was referred to the Privilege Committee. The privilege motion was about the matter that the Sindh assembly has unanimously passed many resolutions to resolve different public issues but they were not being implemented by the federal government. The mover urged the Sindh Assembly to form a mechanism so that the resolution passed should be implemented in the letter’s spirit. However, the Chair rejected an adjournment motion of the same mover regarding the honest and professional Urdu-speaking officers being removed from their posts.