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PIMS ED smells a rat

ISLAMABAD - Health ministry issued show cause notices to Professor Iqbal Saifulah, Dr Tabish Hazir and Dr Tashfeen Adim for their ongoing travels abroad without a leave and at the expense of drug companies.
Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Executive Director Dr Mehmood Jamal took this step against the influential physicians of hospital after obtaining details from the airport immigration authorities, sources within PIMS said.
It was learnt that the Ministry of

Laws bypassed in hiring nurses at PIMS

ISLAMABAD - Gross violation of recruitment procedures took place in Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) where nurses from Punjab province were hired recently on posts allocated for Sindh and Balochistan as very few applicants from those provinces had applied on their quota leaving many posts vacant.
"Violation of recruitment procedures was witnessed in PIMS as for 90 posts of nursing staff, almost all of applicants hired are from Punjab province with many of them on

PIMS hiring staff in violation of rules

ISLAMABAD - Administrators at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) are recruiting staff for Federal Medical College without fulfilling legal requirements, Pakistan Today has learnt.
PIMS is going to start the Federal Medical College within a few weeks and the process of getting recognition from the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has also been initiated, while the dean and joint executive director have already been appointed.
A source in PIMS said

PIMS politics claims woman’s life

ISLAMABAD: Doctor's negligence and departmental politics took the life of Nadia Ahmed, a 23-year-old expecting mother at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on Monday.
Married two years ago in Koral Town, Nadia was admitted to the delivery ward of the hospital a day before Eidul Azha. She died soon after giving birth to her first baby, a beautiful son. A medical student was asked to handle this normal delivery case since no senior doctor was available, sources

One killed, six injured in PIMS shootout

ISLAMABAD
A rivals' clash at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on Friday left one dead and six injured, exposing the security arrangements of the hospital as well as local police apparatus.
The incident occurred outside the gate of the emergency ward in a broad daylight in the presence of hundreds of patients and visitors. The two rival groups, led by Naeem and Chaudhry Riaz, clashed over a land dispute in the Tarlai area in the limits of Koral police