The Malgari Doctoran Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has asked the provincial government to consult all relevant stakeholders before tabling of Essential Service Act at the assembly floor. Addressing at a news conference here at press club on Wednesday, President of the association, Dr Saeedur Rahman said that the government should give implementable service structure to doctors' community of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
He lamented that due to lack of a proper service structure for the community if a doctor appointed in grade-17 will has no chance of promotion. He urged the Provincial Minister for Health, Syed Zahir Shah to accept their demands of provision of service structure and regularisation of ad-hoc doctors in the province.
He expressed fear said that if the doctors community was not taken on board, the passage of the Essential Service Act would be a futile exercise, he remarked. "The community has been de-motivated as they were deprived of their basic requirement, Rahman said and added after the 18th Constitutional Amendments the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government should remove the flaws and lacunas in the health sector.
Flanked by general secretary of Malgari Doctoran, Dr Nadir Khan, he also condemned the increasing cases of kidnapping and target killing of doctors in settle and tribal areas, and demanded provision of foolproof security to the doctors in order to maintain their duties in critical law and order situation across the province.
Rahman called for the establishment of a management council to bring the health system in the province as par the international standard, and urged the provincial government ensure appointment of the Chief Executives in the public sector hospitals on merit.
He asked the government and authorities concerned to develop consensus by taking in confidence the relevant stakeholders including doctors, paramedics and nursing staff before to pass the "Essential Service Structure Act' from provincial assembly.
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