The meeting of the Standing Committee on Women Development was held in the Ministry of Women Development (MoWD) on Thursday with Bushra Gohar in the chair. The committee expressed grave concern over the harassment of female nurses in district layyah and asked the Ministry of Health (MoH) to submit its preliminary inquiry report within 11 days.
The committee also noted that growing concerns of harassment in nursing schools and hostels needed to be investigated and stringent measures should be taken to ensure safety and security of the nurses. The committee also showed displeasure on the irresponsible behaviour of the MoH over the briefing on layyah incident and not to constitute an inquiry committee yet as well as over the absence of the DCO and EDO of Nursing School, layyah from the Committee meeting.
The committee recommended the MoWD to support and improve the hostels facilities for working women. MoWD shall constitute a management committee to improve management quality and standard of the hostels. The committee also directed to follow the implementation of the law titled "Protection against Harassment of the Women at Workplace Act, 2010" in letter and spirit. While MoWD have already forwarded the copies of laws and code of conduct to the federal and provincial governments as well as to all stakeholders with request to constitute the inquiry committees under section 3 of the Act and adoption of Code of Conduct contained therein.-PR