Panelists demand declaring Education Emergency, spending 4% of GDP on education
By Hamid Khan Wazir
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Speakers at a penal discuss stressed the need for declaring an Education Emergency and spending at least 4% of GDP on education in order to bring improvement in the long-neglected Education Sector.
The panel comprising concerned stakeholders including government officials from the Federal Ministry of Education and Professional Training, Vice-Chancellors, Central President Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association.
They gave various recommendations in an online panel discussion on the topic of “Debating Pakistan Education Policy 2021”, which was successfully concluded on Thursday.
The recommendations were given so as they could be incorporated in the new Education Policy which is going to be announced on March 23, 2021.
Chaos at PIMS intensifies as BoG nomination of outgoing ED imperils patient care
Islamabad
January 15, 2021
Islamabad : The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Executive Director Dr. Ansar Maxood, who retired from service Thursday only to reassume charge as the hospital’s new Director under the Medical Teaching Institutions (MTI) Ordinance, will face stiff resistance today (Friday) from protesting employees of PIMS, who are determined not to allow the ‘traitor ED’ to enter the hospital premises, leave alone take charge of office.
The employees of PIMS observed Salvation Day on Thursday to ‘celebrate’ the exit of the sitting ED who, they believe, ‘sold PIMS for his personal interests.’ The protestors publicly vowed not to allow him to sit in the ED’s office, where he is set to assume charge as Director under MTI. “We will celebrate Thanksgiving Day tomorrow (Friday),” the Federal Grand Health Alliance’s Chairman Dr. Asfandyar stated. The Vice Pres
National
January 15, 2021
Islamabad: The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Executive Director Dr. Ansar Maxood, who retired from service Thursday only to reassume charge as the hospital’s new Director under the Medical Teaching Institutions (MTI) Ordinance, will face stiff resistance today (Friday) from protesting employees of PIMS, who are determined not to allow the ‘traitor ED’ to enter the hospital premises, leave alone take charge of office.
The employees of PIMS observed Salvation Day on Thursday to ‘celebrate’ the exit of the sitting ED who, they believe, ‘sold PIMS for his personal interests.’ The protestors publicly vowed not to allow him to sit in the ED’s office, where he is set to assume charge as Director under MTI. “We will celebrate Thanksgiving Day tomorrow (Friday),” the Federal Grand Health Alliance’s Chairman Dr. Asfandyar stated.
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Doctors protest attack on healthstaff at NICH
Say minor girl died due to unavailability of ventilator; FIR lodged against father of girl, others
The CM has directed the health minister to submit a proposal for the expansion of NICH. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
Doctors and other healthcare staff of the National Institute of Child Health protested on Monday against vandalism and assault on doctors by the family of an infant girl who had died at the health facility.
The protesting doctors and staff also boycotted the Out Patient Department (OPD) on the day. Eighteen-month-old minor girl, Sara Khan, had passed away on Saturday night, due to pneumonia. She had been under treatment at the paediatric ward at NICH. The protestors marched from Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre to NICH and shouted slogans calling for their demands to be met. The doctors condemned the attack on them and maintained that the baby had died due to the unavailability of a ventilator at the NICH, which was the Sindh g