CURRENTLY all faculty members working at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) are being paid by the Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) and yet they are not allowed to lecture and assess medical students at the university.

Those of you who might not be knowing, JSMU previously used to be Sindh Medical College.

The faculty is willing to perform their duties but the management threatens them verbally and tells them not to, thus adversely affecting the quality of education at JSMU.

The actual sufferers as a result of this are JPMC patients who are made to wait for several months for their surgery. Medical students and postgraduates suffer too, as there are not enough faculty members to guide them in wards and clinics.

The Sindh government should ask the executive director of JSMU to allow the newly-appointed faculty to work in their respective wards.

Nusrat Shah

Prof Ob Gyn

JSMU, Karachi

Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2017