KARACHI: 7,000 apply for 1,000 vacancies in health dept
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, July 19: The Sindh health department has received about 7,000 applications against 1,000 vacancies in the general and specialist cadres of doctors and the nursing cadre, said the secretary of the department, Mumtazur Rehman Khan, on Thursday.
Early this month, the health department had invited applications for recruitment on a three-year contract basis for each district of the province. July 15 was the last date for the submission of applications.The secretary said that the recruitments in question would be made for each district and successful candidates would have to discharge their duties at a specific post and specific health facility for three years. They would be regularised, if approved by the Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC), after one year of their recruitment, he added.
He said that written tests of all the applicants would be held simultaneously in Karachi, Sukkur and Hyderabad under the arrangement of a government-run medical university or some other government agency soon.
Answering a question, he said that the results of written tests pertaining to the recruitments against various posts ranging from BPS-5 to BPS-15 would be finalised shortly.
About 27,000 candidates had appeared in the written tests held on June 3. The health secretary said that a centralised assessment of the answer scripts of tests were in progress and as soon as the process was over details of the committees, which would interview the candidates at district levels would be announced.
About a month back, the secretary had expressed the hope that appointment letters to applicants against various posts, including the technical ones, would be issued by the last week of June. Now he says that the assessment of 27,000 scripts has turned out to be a time consuming exercise.
Talking to Dawn, Mr Khan also hinted that posting of doctors who were on extraordinary leave, without salary, could be withdrawn in the near future. According to him, the government was actively considering a proposal according to which, those posts of doctors who were away on long leaves should be declared vacant so that fresh appointments of doctors on a contract basis could be made for some period, with the objective that hospitals did not face shortage of medical personnel at any stage.
