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(By Muhammad Mansoor Mumtaz Lahore)
Pakistan Medical Association Lahore President Professor Shahid Malik has expressed serious concern over the withholding of transfer orders of 580 doctors in the Health and Population Department on the verbal instructions of the Health Secretary. He has appealed to the Punjab Chief Minister to immediately issue transfer orders of doctors and deploy them in teaching hospitals so that better medical facilities can be provided to the patients.
Professor Shahid Malik said that during the tenure of former Health Secretary Ali Jan, transfer of doctors from teaching hospitals to primary and from primary to teaching hospitals was a routine administrative process, however, after the appointment of the current Health Secretary, all transfers have been centralized and practically stopped, due to which doctors have been forced to wander around to obtain recommendations.
He pointed out that even those doctors who have completed three years of compulsory service in rural areas are being affected, despite this, their transfer orders are not being issued, although the teaching hospitals of the province are currently facing a severe shortage of doctors.
The President PMA Lahore further said that due to lack of coordination between the secretaries of the Health Department and the Health and Population Department, the system of both departments is being badly affected, which is directly affecting not only the doctors but also the patients.
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Lahore (From Muhammad Mansoor Mumtaz)
President of Pakistan Medical Association Lahore, Professor Shahid Malik, has expressed serious concern over the withholding of transfer orders of 580 doctors in the Health and Population Department on the verbal instructions of the Health Secretary and has appealed to the Chief Minister Punjab to immediately issue the transfer orders of the doctors and post them in teaching hospitals.
Dr. Shahid Malik said that during the tenure of former Health Secretary Ali Jan, transfers from teaching hospitals to primary and primary to teaching hospitals were a routine process, but since the current Health Secretary has been appointed, she has effectively stopped all transfers by centralizing them, due to which doctors are forced to run after recommendations.
Professor Shahid Malik said that transfer orders are not being issued to doctors who have completed the mandatory three-year period in rural areas, even though there is a severe shortage of doctors in teaching hospitals.
He added that due to complete lack of coordination between the secretaries of the Health Department and the Health and Population Department, the system of both departments is being badly affected and its direct loss is reaching both patients and doctors.
