ruthbeme
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Cases of dengue fever are increasing every day in Karachi. Recently, the city district government announced that for the government would bear half the cost of laboratory diagnostic test IgG antibody in the blood serum. This particular test is for the confirmation of dengue fever is very expensive. So far it is being done in a few private hospital laboratories. Physicians are dependent on this test besides the platelets count for proper diagnosis. Even big hospitals run by the federal and provincial government, like JPMC and Civil do not have this facility. Blood samples for patients admitted in these hospitals are sent to Islamabad.
As far as the CDGK?s announcement is concerned it seems that is it only on paper. There is no proper information about its implementation. Even a letter circulated by the EDO is deprived of the information regarding the mechanism for payment to the patient, laboratories and hospitals.
Many patients are waiting for help in this regard. The situation is worsening as arguments and fights are breaking out concerning the payment at laboratories and hospitals. Only those people who are admitted in a hospital can benefit from this 50 per cent rebate, as it is not valid for those going to private clinics or the OPD.
The other problem that is being faced by the patients is that they or their relatives have to bring the patient?s blood sample to the government run Services Hospital located on MA Jinnah Road. Here no proper arrangements can be seen for the timely dispatch of results to various hospitals. There seems to be no liaison at all with the hospitals in the city especially in the wake of an epidemic-like situation arising in the city.
Dr Alfred Charles Karachi
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Cases of dengue fever are increasing every day in Karachi. Recently, the city district government announced that for the government would bear half the cost of laboratory diagnostic test IgG antibody in the blood serum. This particular test is for the confirmation of dengue fever is very expensive. So far it is being done in a few private hospital laboratories. Physicians are dependent on this test besides the platelets count for proper diagnosis. Even big hospitals run by the federal and provincial government, like JPMC and Civil do not have this facility. Blood samples for patients admitted in these hospitals are sent to Islamabad.
As far as the CDGK?s announcement is concerned it seems that is it only on paper. There is no proper information about its implementation. Even a letter circulated by the EDO is deprived of the information regarding the mechanism for payment to the patient, laboratories and hospitals.
Many patients are waiting for help in this regard. The situation is worsening as arguments and fights are breaking out concerning the payment at laboratories and hospitals. Only those people who are admitted in a hospital can benefit from this 50 per cent rebate, as it is not valid for those going to private clinics or the OPD.
The other problem that is being faced by the patients is that they or their relatives have to bring the patient?s blood sample to the government run Services Hospital located on MA Jinnah Road. Here no proper arrangements can be seen for the timely dispatch of results to various hospitals. There seems to be no liaison at all with the hospitals in the city especially in the wake of an epidemic-like situation arising in the city.
Dr Alfred Charles Karachi
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