As per the directions of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the Health Department has promoted 1,211 nurses in BS-17 awaiting promotion since long and posting plan of head nurses is being uploaded on the website of the department.
This was said by Punjab Advisor on Health Salman Rafiq on Saturday. He said that for the first time, the department has promoted nurses to next grade at such a large scale, for which the chief minister had especially directed to create new vacancies for 1,500 nurses due to which it has become possible to promote nurses in such large numbers. Secretary Health Jawad Rafiq Malik told on the occasion that working paper of promotion of additional 500 nurses as head nurses is being prepared and they will be promoted after completion of necessary documents and ACRs.