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| July 11, 2006 | Tuesday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 14, 1427 |
Doctors working with donor agencies violating rules
PESHAWAR, July 10: A number of doctors working with international donor agencies are violating provincial health department rules. Sources said that the provincial government employees were required to seek official permission before applying for jobs outside the department.
“Several doctors are regular employees of the provincial health department or are on deputation for periods ranging between one and 10 years,” a source at the director-general health office said. He said government workers also needed to seek department’s permission if they were selected elsewhere.
“The health department has relieved them without due process,” said a source.
Some of them, the sources said, were also getting their official salaries despite drawing lucrative emoluments from foreign donors.
The sources said that most of the doctors had been previously posted in the office of the director-general of health, which enabled them to come into contact with donor agencies. According to government rules, health department workers also needed official permission to renew their contracts with donor agencies.
Sources said that as a general rule, doctors could continue to work on deputation with global donor agencies for five years but some of them had been with them for as long as 10 years.
“Some of the doctors have been working with the donor agencies since the MMA-led government came to power in the province,” one of the sources said.
He said that the doctors employed by donor agencies during the MMA rule had not been selected through proper interviews but had been directly inducted on government recommendations.
Director-General Health Dr Jalilur Rehman said that the health secretariat was responsible for processing doctors’ applications for jobs with international organisations, adding that it would be appropriate to ask them on the issue.
“We just forward doctors’ applications. The secretariat’s is the final word,” he said. The secretary health was not available for comments.
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