Critical care in crisis at Lahore’s Mayo Hospital

LAHORE: Over a century-old Mayo Hospital is plagued by shortage of medicines, closure of several wards, suspension of diagnostic facilities and faulty medical equipment.

Documents and hospital officials claim that most of the diagnostic facilities, wards/departments, and operating theatres have been inoperative for the last six months or so.

According to a report, 73 ACs in the hospital are not functioning due to negligence on the part of the additional medical superintendent (works)...