Public hospitals face bed, staff crisis

Public hospitals face bed, staff crisis

Due to its advanced treatment facilities, Karachi is known to attract patients from across Sindh and Balochistan. However, with only 6,500 beds, 250 ventilators and a shortage of doctors and medical staff, major hospitals in the city are ill-equipped to handle even the local influx of patients. Sadia Khatun, who came to the Jinnah Hospital for her husband's gallbladder surgery, was told by the staff that no bed was available. "I struggled tirele…