The health department has made mockery of existing service rules as it issued three transfer and posting notifications within 30 days of two employees of BS-17 ignoring merit in violation of apex court orders against the post of BS-18.
The notorious OPS system banned by the superior court is still prevailing in the entire province but the health department has surpassed all peaks and precedents. The health department employees thought that the newly-posted health secretary would restrain himself from obliging political figures but to their utter surprise he was repeating the same mistakes what his precedents were doing.
One such incident of bad governance has occurred here. On retirement of Aslam Memon from the post of principal of Female School of Nursing, Shaikh Zayed Hospital for Women, Nursing Tutor (BS-17) on December 24, 2014, Naveed Buriro was posted as principal against the post of BS-18 as this post is of basic scale-18. He was transferred by the health secretary on January 5, 2015 and Nursing Sister Mrs Jamila Ayaz Tunio was posted as principal in his place due to serious dearth of BS-18 officers.
She joined the duties on January 6 but to her utter surprise she was transferred by the health secretary on January 23, 2015, vide notification dated SO (PM-I)N-25/2008-09 and he took over on 26th. She will retire from the government service on September 30, 2015, which shows that she is the most senior among the existing available scales but she has been deprived of the post owing to unknown reasons.
The promotion of these posts of BS-17 has not yet been made since 2006 which too amounts to violation of basic service rights. According to reliable sources, three to four officers (BS-18) of the same posts are available at the moment and all of them are already posted, the hence health department would have to give immediate schedule of convening departmental promotion committee (DPC) meeting, otherwise junior people will continue to be posted through corrupt practices and good governance will never be established.