KARACHI, Nov 16: Sindh Chief Secretary K.B. Rind, on Saturday directed Provincial Health Secretary Amir Ali Burq to chalk out a strategy for the regularization of 704 contract doctors on the pattern of the regularization of contract employees of the education department.
He issued the directive while talking to a six-member delegation of contract doctors at his office.
The delegation apprised the chief secretary of their problems and urged that they should be regularized. The chief secretary told them that the health secretary was working hard on the issue and expressed the hope that he would be able to resolve the matter within the laid down rules and regulations.
The chief secretary has advised the officials of the Karachi police and the city district government to take action against the elements involved in teasing schoolgirls .
He issued the directive while talking to a delegation of social workers here on Saturday. They complained that bad characters had been harassing the girls of Ibrahim Ali Bhai School, Orangi, and other schools and colleges since long.
The chief secretary asked the DCO Karachi and the capital city police chief to depute special teams to monitor the activities of such elements and take action against them.
He, however, said that innocent people should not be touched, as it had been observed that instead of offenders, innocents were victimized.
He also urged Nazims and councillors of the towns and union councils to form citizen comittees to curb such activites.
ADULTRATORS WARNED: The chief secretary has expressed concern over the sale of substandard milk in the city and warned adulterators that if they do not mend their ways by Sunday morning, they will face action.
He said that even during normal days adulteration and profiteering wer offences that could be prosecuted, but such activities during Ramazan-ul-Mubarak could not be tolerated.
