KARACHI, June 9: The Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) Staff Action Committee alleging that some elements in the Sindh government were interfering into the institution’s administrative affairs, have sought help from the federal government. In a statement on Wednesday, the JPMC Staff Action Committee claimed that ‘extortionist’ in the provincial government were using tactics of intimidation, threats and other unfair means of interference in the JPMC’s affairs, trying to ‘besiege’ this important national institution, where thousands of doctors and other paramedical staff were being educated and trained.

“By hurling continuous threats at the medical staff, interference into the OPD matters, forcing extortion from officials of pharmaceutical companies, and imposing biased decisions on the administration, the hospital is being made ineffective,” the action committee protested.

Referring to ‘political interference’, a spokesman for the action committee alleged that the concept of upholding merit in examinations was literally washed away during Tuesday’s exams of Postgraduates, house officers and MBBS final year candidates.

As a result, he maintained that those, who had made it into the institution on merit, were crying for help, but in vain.

“The administration is helpless over the desecration of this noble profession, where political activists are unfairly being cleared in viva exams,” he deplored.

The action committee has demanded the federal government to provide immediate protection to doctors and teachers.

It also called for vacating all illegal residents from the JMPC’s vicinity, otherwise the hospital would turn into a ‘safe heaven for terrorists’. — PPI