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Governement Hospitals of Lahore
Running Head: PROBLEMS OF EMERGENCY WARDS OF GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS

Problems of Emergency Wards of Government Hospitals

M.Arslan Malik
Usman Omer
Nasir Butt
Fahad Khurram

Ms. RameezaAslam
Academic Writing, M
(SSC 204)
8th April,2012

Abstract Nowadays there is huge increase in number of unsatisfied patients of government hospitals in Lahore . Many articles and news have been published about the poor performance of government hospital. In this research the focus will be about the facts and reasons behind the unsatisfied condition of government hospitals. For that purpose two Hospitals has been chosen. 1) Government General Hospitals
2) Services Hospital.
The significance of this study is to bring forward the problems of Hospitals in the Emergency wards. This research will let people decide who is responsible for these problems the Government, the Doctors or the patients itself?

Acknowledgements
First of all we would like to thank Lahore School of Economics for giving us the chance to conduct research. We are also very grateful to Ms. Rameeza Aslam in helping us in the project by guiding us. We are very grateful to Dr. Muhammad Iqbal (Lahore general hospital) and Dr.Javed Ali Butt ( Services Hospital), for giving us the permission for the research, for taking interview from the patients and having discussions with the doctors. We are grateful to Mr. Qaddafi (Deputy Medical Superintendent) for giving us his precious time for the interview. We are thankful to Mr. Syed tanvir for giving us an interview and giving his points of view towards the hospital. We are grateful to Dr.SanaAhmed(Services hosp) , Dr.Waqas (LGH) , Dr.Ali Hassan (LGH). andDr.MohsinRasheed (LGH) for giving us the information related to the topic and giving us some facts and figures. We are thankful to the staff of Emergency and Emergency wards for cooperate us in getting the surveys and the having the interviews. Mr. Arslan Malik and MR. Usman Omer is focusing on the


References: (Nation,2009) http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/lahore/16-Jan-2009/Rs-878m-for-free-medicines-in-hospitals) (Nation,2010). (http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/lahore/11-Oct-2010/Govt-fails-to-provide-free-medicines-at-hospitals) Nations (2011) http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/lahore/02-Nov-2011/CM-unhappy-over-poor-hospital-cleanliness (Nations,2012) The News [Online] / Qasim Muhammad // The News International. -Daily Times, December Friday, 2008. - February 12, 2009. - http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=150664 Problems facing Emergency wards in US “Doctors Block Jail Road for five hours” The News [Online]//The News International.-Daily Times, SeptemberSaturday, 2008.-February 10, 2009
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