{"id":1819,"date":"2020-03-11T08:04:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T08:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2020-03-11T08:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T08:05:35","slug":"patients-show-concern-over-the-filthy-toilets-in-sth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/patients-show-concern-over-the-filthy-toilets-in-sth\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients show concern over filthy toilets in STH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fazal Khaliq<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MINGORA: The patients and their attendants have complained about the poor condition of cleanliness in Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the biggest hospital in Malakand division but patients face problems owing to poor condition of cleanliness,\u201d said Ikram Khan, who was with his brother in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatients are brought to the hospital to be treated where hygiene must be the top priority but everything is upside down here as hygienic condition is the worst. It seems that there is no sweeper in the hospital because nobody cleans the toilets,\u201d said a patient in the gynae ward.<\/p>\n<p>The attendants said that the toilets in the hospital were not only filthy and dirty but also less in number. They said that there were no toilets for the attendants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really shocked to know that there is no arrangement of toilets for those, who come with the patients as attendants to the hospital. Ultimately, majority of the attendants attend call of nature along the boundary walls of the hospital,\u201d said Shahid Ali, an attendant with a patient in the gynea ward.<\/p>\n<p>The patients also complained that there was only one toilet in the hospital\u2019s laboratory that was used by both men and women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least there must be two separate toilets for male and female patients in the laboratory. Often there is along queue outside the toilet in the laboratory because male and female patients have to collect urine for different tests. The rush for the toilet leads to embarrassment and humiliation in our society where we have Islamic culture and tradition,\u201d said Ghafoor Khan, who was waiting in a queue outside the laboratory toilet to collect urine for a test.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Najeeb, a spokesperson for Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital, when contacted, said that new toilets would be constructed soon. For the cleaning purpose, the number of the existing sweepers was insufficient and the government had already advertised 40 posts for sweepers, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the 40 sweepers are hired, the cleanliness issue would be resolved,\u201d said Dr Najeeb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fazal Khaliq MINGORA: The patients and their attendants have complained about the poor condition of cleanliness in Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital. \u201cThis is the biggest hospital in Malakand division but patients face problems owing to poor condition of cleanliness,\u201d said Ikram Khan, who was with his brother in the hospital. \u201cPatients are brought to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[673,672,671],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}