JACOBABAD, Dec 2: Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Health Affairs Faisal Malik has said that doctors will be registered in the province and their fees will be fixed by the government under a new health policy.
He was talking to journalists at the EDO health office here on Thursday. He said that modern medical facilities would be provided in the civil hospitals and medicines would be made available there as it was top priority of the Sindh government to provide health facilities to people.
He took serious notice of falling standard of pathological laboratories and warned that strict action would be taken against such laboratories. He added that a six-member committee had been appointed to keep a vigilant eye on the laboratories. Earlier, the adviser administered anti-polio drops to children in a local hospital.
LARKANA: The departmental promotion committee is meeting within a week and is expected to promote a good number of assistant and associate professors from 18 to 19 grade which will enable the Sindh government to fill vacancies of senior faculty in the Chandka Medical College.
This was stated by the adviser at a meeting here on Thursday. CMC principal Prof Sikandar Shaikh told the adviser about the problems being faced by the college administration including the shortage of senior faculty (teaching staff), law and order, repair and renovation of college and hostel buildings.
At present eight professors are working against sanctioned posts of 20 professors in the college. The adviser said that the Sindh government was actively considering establishment of a dental college in Larkana.
