PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has appointed directors to the four teaching hospitals of the province for an interim period.

According to a notification issued here on Wednesday, Dr Farman Ali has been appointed as hospital director while Professor Nadeem Khawar will act as medical director at the Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, respectively.

Similarly, Dr Adnan Taj has been appointed hospital director and Dr Aamir Ghafoor as medical director to the Lady Reading Hospital. Dr Khalid Latif will be hospital director at the Hayatabad Medical Complex and Dr Mazhar Khan as medical director, while Dr Siddiqui Rehman and Dr Aftab Rabbani have been appointed as hospital director and medical director at the Ayub Medical Complex, Abbottabad, respectively.

The notification said that after these appointments, the posts of chief executives and medical superintendents ceased to exist.

It said that the new appointees would work till the appointment of regular persons to these posts.

Meanwhile, the government has upgraded the Mardan Medical Complex to Mardan Teaching Institute in line with the section 3 of the Pakhtunkhwa Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Act, 2015.

It also notified Bannu Medical College and its affiliated District Headquarters Hospital, Women and Children Hospital and Khalifa Gul Nawaz Hospital as teaching institutions. Similarly, Gomal Medical College and its affiliated DHQ Hospital, DI Khan and Mufti Mehmood Teaching Hospital were also declared as teaching institutions, according to a notification issued from the office of secretary health, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Wednesday.

Published in Dawn, March 26th, 2015

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