KPK government hospitals: vacant posts of doctors, nurses being filled on priority: minister

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister for Health Shahram Khan Tarakai has said that all the vacant posts of doctors, paramedics and nurses in the public sector hospitals of the province are being filled on emergency basis.
Moreover, highly qualified young doctors will be inducted as medical consultants through walk-in interview for improving the health delivery system in the province, he added.
The minister was talking to a delegation of young doctors who called on him at his office, the other day, to discuss matters relating to implementation of the provincial government's reforms in the health sector.
He said that the consultants to be appointed shortly would not only be offered attractive salary package, but they would be posted in the hospitals of their choice.
Disclosing that salaries and incentives of public sector hospitals' doctors were also being increased substantially and a summary in this regard has been sent to provincial chief minister for his perusal and approval.
He also informed the delegation that district specialists, around 900 nurses and 500 paramedics, were also being recruited for the hospitals of district headquarters and other health care facilities and a no-objection certificate (NOC) in this regard had already been obtained from Provincial Public Service Commission. These posts would be advertised in a couple of days, Tarakai added.
At the outset, the minister clarified that as a mater of fact the provincial government was not against any doctor or any individual rather it was against the mindset that supports the status quo.
He said that doctors were a playing a pivotal role in providing health care services to the people. Claiming that an overwhelming majority of doctors was in favour of health sector's reforms, he said that only a handful of them were opposing the reforms because of their vested interest.