KTH coronavirus deaths: PTI govt under pressure to appoint full-time KP health minister
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health and Finance Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra. Photo: Geo. tv/File
Taimur Saleem Jhagra is the minister for finance and has been given the additional charge of the health portfolio
There has been a growing demand for the resignation of Taimur Saleem Jhagra after the Khyber Teaching Hospital incident
Last week, five patients in the isolation ward and one in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital had died when its oxygen supply was disrupted
PESHAWAR: Following the recent spate of deaths at Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) due to a shortage of oxygen cylinders, the PTI government is under pressure to appoint a full-time health minister.
Peshawar
December 14, 2020
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is under pressure to appoint a full-time health minister following the recent deaths at the Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) here due to oxygen shortage as demand is increasingly being made for resignation of Taimur Saleem Jhagra.
Jhagra was the minister for finance when he was given the additional charge of the health portfolio after the sacking of Shahram Khan Tarakai, the minister of health, along with Mohammad Atif Khan and Shakil Ahmad from the cabinet in January 2020 on disciplinary grounds. Even after the passage of about 11 months, the provincial government has been unable to decide who should be the new health minister. Jhagra has continued to manage the two portfolios, both full-time jobs with heavy workload. He seems to have taken a liking for running the health portfolio and was happy to retain the portfolio along with his original charge as finance minister. Or