Dr Gill films conditions at Jacobabad hospital to `disprove` Bilawal`s claim.

SUKKUR -- Special assistant to prime minister Dr Shahbaz Gill paid a surprise visit to Civil Hospital Jacobabad on Sunday and made a video of shabby conditions at the facility to disprove Pakistan Peoples Party chairman`s statement that Sindh offered much better healthcare than other parts of the country.

Bilawal had thrown a challenge to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government during a press conference at the Chief Minister House a day earlier saying he asked the Centre to show him even one hospital it had established which matched the performance of oneof Sindh`s three major hospitals National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and National Institute of Child health.

Dr Gill visited different wards and departments and made inquirles from doctors and other staff about the facilities available in the hospital as he kept filming shabby conditions in cardiac and emergency wards and OPD.

He said in the video he released afterwards that contrary to PPP chairman`s claims the hospital`s condition was so poor that not to speak of treatment of coronavirus patients it did not even have enough facilities for the treatment of patients` with common diseases.

He said that by making newrecords of corruption PPP government had sent Sindh back to what it had been centuries ago. He had visited many hospitals across the country including those in Balochistan but the condition of Jacobabad Civil Hospital was the worst among them.

He said in a sarcastic tone that the hospital had so few facilities that if a patient visited it to seek treatment he would never get cure for his illness but he would return home with more ailments.

Dr Gill said the Sindh government had imposed strict lockdown on the province in the name of coronavirus and shut workplaces of poor...