Islamabad: (parliament times) As many as 154 out of 777 sanctioned posts of nurses are lying vacant in The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Islamabad. According to International standards, one nurse is required to be appointed to look after 10 beds in a hospital and on the other hand one nurse is working to look after 25 beds in PIMS. As per international criterion one nurse is must to look after patient against one bed in emergency, ICU and trauma centre in every hospital but in PIMS one nurse is discharging her duty against 3 beds. The reason behind the lack of nurses is stated that the vacant posts pertain to the nurses quota allocated for Sindh, Balochistan and KP . The nurses of these provinces are either not available or they are not interested to serve in Islamabad. Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto University Vice Chancellor Dr Javed Akram said that they have already given an advisement in Newspaper for appointment of nurses against vacant posts. As soon as the posts are filled in, the woes of patients will stand alleviated.
