PESHAWAR: The managements of Khyber Teaching Hospital and Khyber Medical College have approved promotions of five senior doctors in pursuance of the recommendations of the promotion committee.

The decision is aimed at improving patient care as well as medical education and training of doctors doing specialisation, according to a press release issued here on Saturday. The newly promoted doctors included associate professors Jamila Mehnaz Naib and Shahnaz Nadir, who have been made professors in the gynaecology and obstetric departments of the Khyber Teaching Hospital.

Assistant professor Bashir Ahmad has been made associate professor at the psychiatry ward of KTH.

Assistant professor Dr Mohammad Abid Shah has been made associate professor at the pharmacology department of Khyber Medical College.

Dr Syed Dil Bagh Ali Shah, senior registrar orthopedic, KTH, has been made assistant professor. Those promoted will be on probation for a period of one year, extendable for another year. Their services will be governed by rules and regulations framed under the Medical Teaching Institution Reforms Act, 2015.

Published in Dawn, March 26th, 2017