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The teaching hospitals had the services of consultants, doctors, nurses, paramedics and other staff prior to the implementation of MTIRA. Photo courtesy Creative Commons/File
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has started giving incentives to the doctors recruited under Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Act, 2015 to strengthen institution-based practice in the teaching hospitals.
The teaching hospitals had the services of consultants, doctors, nurses, paramedics and other staff prior to the implementation of MTIRA. They would work under the provincial government.
Following the extension of the new law to teaching hospitals, the staff was asked to opt for becoming employee of the respective medical teaching institution but most of them preferred to stay as civil servants under the provincial government.
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.
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.
The Medical Teaching Institution Appellate Tribunal Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has started its operations in the province. AFP/File
PESHAWAR: The Medical Teaching Institution Appellate Tribunal Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has started its operations in the province, a notification issued here on Monday said.
The tribunal located in the Judicial Complex in Phase-7 of Hayatabad has been established after an amendment to the Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Act, 2015, to hear cases only related to the medical teaching institutions.
Officials said all the cases in the MTI-covered hospitals and their affiliated colleges would now be heard at the MTI Appellate Tribunal.
The amendment incorporated to the MTIRA 2015 last year aimed to fast-track the cases of the employees and institutions and ensure smooth-sailing of hospitals.