A view of Mayo Hospital in Lahore. — Photo courtesy Mayo Hospital website
LAHORE: A newly formed Board of Governors has taken over the administrative and financial control of Punjab’s largest state-run teaching institute, Mayo Hospital, after electing unopposed its first chairman as provided under the Punjab Medical Teaching Institutions (MTI) (Reforms)Act 2020.
The former vice chancellor of the University of Health Sciences and known paediatric surgeon, Prof Dr Mahmood Shaukat, was elected the chairman during the first meeting of the seven-member board held recently.
Under the MTI Act, the board will runall financial, administrative and other affairs of the 2,800-bed Mayo Hospital and the recently restored 150-year-old King Edward Medical College.