Shortage of medicines, anaesthesia injections continue in govt hospitals.

Hospital patients continue to face a shortage of medicines, anaesthesia injections in provincial government hospitals.

In Lahore's Mayo Hospital, patients and their relatives are starting to buy medicines from the market since they are unavailable at the hospital for days.

Due to the lack of anaesthesia injections, surgeries and operations have slowed down, according to sources at the Mayo and Jinnah hospital.

However, MS Dr Khalid of General Hospital told the media that Mayo and Jinnah hospitals have been loaned around 300 doses of anaesthesia by his medical facility.

Mayo Hospital administration says that medicines have not yet been purchased but they will...