KARACHI, Feb 1: Sindh Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed has said that the shortage of doctors in government-run hospitals will be alleviated with the appointment of medical officers.

He was speaking to a gathering mainly comprising newly recruited medical officers after handing over 128 appointment orders to them at a function held at Ojha Campus of Dow University of Health Sciences on Saturday night.

The minister said that the newly appointed doctors would have to serve at least two years in the district of their domicile, adding that doctors with postgraduate qualification would be posted in teaching hospitals. He said that more doctors would be recruited soon so that people were provided better medical facilitates in all parts of the province.

Sindh Health Secretary Mohammad Hussain Syed and Adviser to Chief Minister Qurban Ali Shah also spoke.

Senior health department officials, medical superintendents and doctors were present.—PPI