PESHAWAR: Being in the frontline of its tremendous services during the coronavirus pandemic, a single but irresponsible act of Associate Hospital Director of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s leading.
PESHAWAR: The medical teaching institutions have yet to enforce uniform service rules and pay structure for the employees in accordance with the decision of Policy Board taken last year, according to sources.
The board was established in 2019 through an amendment to the Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Act, 2015 following reports about difference in salaries of the employees working on same positions in different medical teaching institutions.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has extended MTIRA to 10 hospitals and their affiliated medical colleges since its passage by the provincial assembly in 2015.
Employees working on same positions in various institutions get different salaries
The law is meant to grant financial and administrative autonomy to medical teaching institutions where all the decisions are made by the respective board of governors.
Ministers, advisers allotted portfolios in KP
Peshawar
May 21, 2021
PESHAWAR: After recent reshuffle in the cabinet, Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Thursday allotted portfolios to the ministers, advisors and special assistants, with assigning Mohammad Atif Khan two different ministries, including food and science and information technology.
The chief minister had reshuffled the cabinet a month ago and replaced some of the members, reportedly owing to poor performance.
According to a notification, Fazle Shakoor Khan has been appointed as minister of law and parliamentary affairs and human rights.
He is the new face in the cabinet. Belonging to Charsadda, Fazle Shakoor Khan was elected an MPA on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ticket.
This file photo shows a view of the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar. Photo courtesy Saad Sarfraz Sheikh/File
PESHAWAR: Senior consultants have been resigning from the province’s biggest Lady Reading Hospital allegedly due to lack of job satisfaction, unfriendly environment and no prospect of promotion for faculty in near future.
Officials at LRH administration say that those quitting their jobs don’t fulfil promotion criteria and are unwilling to do research besides remaining absent due to which they have been made accountable.
During the past three years, more than 24 consultants have quit LRH and joined other hospitals or proceeded abroad, according to consultants, who have resigned from their positions at the hospital.
Pakistani doctors serving abroad help LRH better manage Covid patients
National
May 4, 2021
PESHAWAR: It was during the months of April and May last year that the situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s biggest hospital, the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), seemed to be desperate.
The first wave of COVID-19 had hit the province and the hospital’s performance in treating patients suffering from the deadly disease was noted to be abysmal.
The personal protective equipment was in short supply, staff were not trained about how to protect themselves from getting infected; it was chaos all over.
The situation was worse where it needed to be most efficient and best: the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital. The high mortality rate there was a huge embarrassment for the administration and most agonizing for the families of the sick. It was reported that the ICU mortality rate was 100 percent or very close to it.