Pakistan, Aug. 13 -- Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) South Punjab Fuad Hashim Rabbani paid a surprise visit to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Ahmadpur East, finding long delays in patient treatment and gaps in hospital management.

He was accompanied by Special Secretary C&W Aftab Pirzada, Assistant Commissioner Muhammad Naveed Haider, and Medical Superintendent Dr Khawar Bhutta.

The ACS inspected the emergency department, surgery and orthopaedic wards, pharmacy, and OPD, and spoke to patients. Many were waiting outside doctors' rooms in the orthopaedic and OPD sections due to long delays.

The hospital pharmacy was found without a laptop, with staff recording medicines in the app via mobile phone. A woman complained that her husba...