HYDERABAD: 'Civil hospital being pressured to sack 52 employees'
By Our Correspondent
HYDERABAD, March 25: Fifty-two newly-recruited employees of the Civil Hospital of Hyderabad are worried because the Sindh health ministry is pressuring the hospital administration to terminate their services and make fresh appointments
, sources told this correspondent on Tuesday.
A Sindh secretariat source said the minister concerned had been asking the hospital administration to cancel the appointments but the medical superintendent had so far resisted it on the ground that the posts had been filled after adopting due procedure and on the basis of merit.
The employees resumed their duties last month after being given fitness certificates. A hospital source said the employees were likely to move the court if their services were terminated.
He said vested interests wanted to get their own people appointed on the posts. Around 107 vacancies were advertized in newspapers last year and 25 committees, each comprising two senior health officials, were formed to conduct interviews.
It was learnt that the medical superintendent had been asked by the minister to cancel the appointments and he had been called in Karachi so that he could be communicated verbal orders in this regard.
While the pressure on the hospital management is mounting, no written directives have so far been issued and the medical superintendent of the hospital is reported to have insisted that he should be given something in writing so that he can face the court of law in case the employees moved the court after being terminated.
Earlier, Noman Saigal had been asking the MS to cancel the appointments. A bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit, comprising Justice Mohammad Moosa K. Leghari and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, has already quashed an order of then adviser to the Sindh chief minister on health affairs, Noman Saigal, terminating services of eight employees of the National Programme for Family Planning and Primary Healthcare.
ARMY RECRUITMENT: The Army Selection and Recruitment Centre, has announced that centre will carry out registration for enrolment of technicians of army aviation (EME Corps) upto April 3.
The candidates with age between 17 to 20 and height 5 ft 6 inches with qualification of matriculation in Science B-grade are qualified to apply. However, the candidates having qualification F.Sc/B.Sc/Diploma from government polytechnic institutes will be given upper age relaxation upto 3 years.
Interested candidates have been advised to contact the Army Selection and Recruitment Centre Hyderabad and bring original school leaving certificate, matric, intermediate marks sheets, domicile/PRC certificates, photo copy of NIC/Form-B and two passport size photographs with them.
