HYDERABAD, March 5: The President, Pakistan Medical Association, Sindh chapter, Dr Noor Muhammad Memon, has appealed to the newly-elected Government of Sindh to regularize the services of 704 contractual doctors who had been serving in the far-flung areas of Sindh for the last six years.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, he said, the government had initially hired the services of doctors in 1995 for a year on contract basis to provide healthcare in the far-flung areas.
He, however, said that the other three provinces regularized the services of the contractual doctors, but, regretfully, the Sindh government did not emulate the other provinces.
He said not only this but the contract doctors had also not been paid their salaries for the last 16 months, and added that these doctors were being given piece-meal relief.
He said that the contractual doctors and their families had been living under perpetual tension year after year and now they had become overage and also lost the chance of doing their post-graduation.
The president, PMA, Sindh, said that the contractual doctors had now pinned all their hopes on the democratic government and they expect that the members of the Sindh Assembly would regularize their services.
HESCO: The surveillance team of the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) accompanied by the recovery Mukhtiarkar, Operation Circle-I, Hyderabad, on Wednesday caught red-handed a private electrician for tampering and repacking the meters.
According to Wapda sources, a surveillance team led by the deputy director, System Protection Wapda, Abdul Raheem Bhutto, accompanied by Recovery Mukhtiarkar Syed Zaman Shah, during their surprise visit to the Qasimabad sub-division, caught hold of a private electrician, Khalid Bughio, near the Happy Homes, who was engaged in the repacking of meters. He was handed over to the Bhittai Nagar police station.
Repacking material and other implements used in power theft were also recovered from his possession by the police.
HDA: The planning and development control department, Hyderabad Development Authority, on Tuesday announced that the “M/s Super Society Market” was illegally engaged in housing and commercial schemes on the Auto Bhan Road, Hyderabad, and was also booking shops and flats.
The HDA has made it clear that the sponsors of this scheme had taken no permission from it and the plot was also a disputed one viz a viz the Railway Employees Cooperative Housing.
The HDA has issued a notice to the sponsors of the scheme to stop the booking forthwith and clear its position failing which action will be taken under the Building Control Act.
EOBI: The Employees Old-age Benefit Institution is providing financial protection to the industrial workers and making efforts to improve the working of the Social Security System for the benefit of the workers.
This was said by EOBI chairman M. Shafi Malik while talking to members of the Kotri Association of Trade and Industry on Tuesday.
