LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has suspended entire top administration of the Lahore General Hospital from service, including principal and medical superintendent, over poor sanitary arrangements and pathetic treatment facilities at the hospital.

Presiding over a meeting here on Monday, the chief minister expressed anguish over lack of facil-ities at the LGH, saying the officials who failed to run the hospital efficiently despite receiving huge budget deserved no mercy.

The chief minister called the meeting to review the problems faced by the patients which he came to know during his recent visit to the LGH.

During the visit, he had taken notice of delay in operations, poor sanitary arrangements, dirty bed sheets, uncovered power switchboards, unclean washrooms anddoctors working without white overcoats at the hospital.

Annoyed by the inefficiency of hospital administration, he ordered immediate suspension of its medical superintendent (MS), AMS and some doctors not wearing overcoats.

He also ordered transfer of Postgraduate Medical Institute, LGH, principal Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood.

Addressing the meeting, Shahbaz Sharif said he was shocked at thelack of medical facilities at the hospital.

`It was lamentable that proper treatment facilities were not available to poor patients at a medical institution like LGH`, he said. He announced an `emergency` for construction and repair of washrooms of hospitals, supply of water and provision of clean bedsheets.

He issued instructions that commissioners and districts coordination officers should also pay visits to teaching hospitals.