KARAK: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf local lawmakers have miserably failed to keep their word to get filled the 80 vacant posts of doctors in the district hospitals.
This was alleged by leaders of local rights organisation, Khattak Ittehad, during a press conference here the other day.
The KI leaders demanded of MNA Nasir Khan Khattak and MPA Gul Sahib Khan to appoint the doctors to the hospitals without delay.
The elders said that only eight doctors were running 19 basic health centres, while 80 sanctioned posts of medical officers had been lying unfulfilled in the hospitals across the district since long.
They said that the district had one DHQ hospital, three tehsil headquarters hospitals, three civil hospitals, four rural health centres and 19 basic health units to deliver healthcare to people.
However, they said that in the specialised categories, five sanctioned posts of gynecologists, three pediatricians, two anesthetic and one post each of pathologist, blood bank officer, physician, psychiatrist, skin specialist, cardiologist and physiotherapist had been lying vacant.
The Khattak Ittehad elders said that of the 20 sanctioned posts of laboratory technicians, six were vacant, and of the 13 posts of operation theater technicians, six were lying unfulfilled.
Similarly, of the 13 posts of anesthesia technicians, seven had been lying vacant, besides several posts of nurses remained vacant in the district hospitals.
They recalled that MNA Nasir Khan Khattak and MPA Gul Sahib Khan Khattak had promised before the last year’s general elections that they would fill the vacant posts of 80 doctors from the oil and gas royalty funds, but so far no action had been taken in that regard.
The Khattak elders said that instead of establishing more healthcare centres in the district the existing ones should be made fully functional by providing the required staff to improve healthcare delivery to people.
Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2014