Centre, Sindh tussle to take over JPMC intensifies
National
April 6, 2021
KARACHI: A tussle has started between the federal health authorities and the Sindh government to have administrative and financial control of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC), Karachi, and the provincial authorities are resisting attempts by the National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination (NHS, R&C) to take over the tertiary-care health facility by directing the Executive Director JPMC not to attend any meetings of Board of Governors, officials said.
“The Sindh health department has directed the Executive Director JPMC Dr. Seemin Jamali not to attend any meeting of the Board of Governors as it has rejected its constitution. It is still holding talks with the federal health authorities and wants the issue to be resolved through mutual understanding,” an official of the Sindh health department told The News on Monday. The federal health authorities have constituted an independent boa
MODELS walk on the ramp to present various designers’ creations at the show.
KARACHI: The lull period is finally over, it seems, when it comes to fashion weeks for following hot on the heels of the three-day Pantene Hum Bridal Couture Week, held earlier this month in Lahore, is the two-day Secret Garden Fashion Pakistan Week Spring/Summer ‘21, albeit a much smaller, toned-down outdoor affair hosting 13 designers and fashion labels, and being held at an expansive, privately-owned lawn facility.
The designers who showed on Day One of FPW were Umsha by Uzma Babar, Mubashara Najam, Diners, Sadaf Malaterre, Aleena Farina, Tabassum Mughal and jewellery designer Sundas Talpur.