Vacant posts in hospitals: SHC asks minister, secy health to submit proposals by May 23

Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday sought the proposals from Sindh Provincial Minister Health and Secretary Health Sindh to fill the vacant posts of doctors and paramedical staffs in hospitals of various districts of province and directed to submit the detailed report by May 23 after it showed concern over the shortage of doctors and paramedical staff in the government hospitals.
Division bench headed by Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar resumed the hearing of the case pertaining to shortage of doctors and paramedical staff in eleven districts and deliberated upon the report, which was submitted with it about vacant posts in hospitals in eleven districts of Sindh including Karachi, Sukkur, Shikarpur, Tharparkar and others.
Report pointed out that 79 posts of doctors are lying vacant in District Hospital Shikarpur. Court while expressing anguish at the state of affairs in Shikarpur district hospital directed for filling the vacant vacancies immediately. Court also took exception over the way district hospital is being run in Shikarpur where no surgeon is available. How the operations are conducted in the hospital when no anaesthesia specialist is available in the hospital, court ruled.
Petitioner Shahab Osto submitted before the court that many vacancies of gynaecologist, pathologists, surgeon, child specialists etc. are lying vacant in the government hospitals across Sindh.
Court directed secretary health Sindh to transfer the doctors to Shikarpur district hospital till new appointments made in the hospital.
Bench directed Sindh minister and secretary health to submit the report with the court about the vacant posts in government hospitals in Sindh by proposing when these would be filled.
Meanwhile, SHC rejected the bail applications of accused in illegal allotment of 242 acres of government land case in district Malir.
NAB prosecutor opposed the bail application of five accused including a former Mukhtarkar in the case and contended that there are concrete evidences of corruption against the accused. The bail application should be rejected, NAB prosecutor pleaded.
Defence counsel contended that NAB ignored the important facts in the inquiry of the case and pleaded for granting of bail to his clients. Court however turned down the bail application of the accused, who have been charged with causing loss to national exchequer by allotting 242 acres of government land illegally to the private people.