- 80 posts vacant in Children Hospital
- Salaries not good enough for doctors to work at BPS-17, 18
Despite several advertisements given in the newspapers and adhoc recruitments, as many as 80 posts of senior doctors are laying vacant in the city’s Children Hospital for the last three years.
According to hospital sources, posts for associate professors, assistant professors and around 33 senior registrars (SRs) are laying vacant. However, some posts were filled on adhoc basis, they said.
Punjab Health Department has advertised these posts at least three times but failed to get encouraging response from doctors.
Young Doctors Association (YDA) office bearers Dr Nasir Abbas and others said that neither senior doctors nor medical officers were ready to do work on meager salaries of BPS-17 and 18. They claimed that the Health Department officials, despite over two dozen meetings with PMA, YDA and Medical Teachers Association (MTA), had failed to develop consensus on the matter of service structure of doctors.
The doctors said that on the other hand, the Health Department had been spending hefty funds on procuring medical equipment. “In the absence of required doctors how could public benefit from such equipment and diagnostic machinery?” they asserted.
