LAHORE: The Punjab government has created 275 posts of doctors, nurses, paramedics and other employees for the upgrade of the nine-storey newly constructed Radiology Tower of the Services Hospital, Lahore.

Of them, two posts are for professors in BS-20, 22 for assistant professors and senior registrars in BS-18, 75 for medical officers in BS-17, head nurses, technologists etc in BS-17, 64 for staff nurses in BS-16, and seven for junior computer operator in BS-12.

The Services Hospital had sent a request to create total 509 new posts for the in-question scheme.

The Punjab government, however, approved 275 of them in first phase while others will be created in second phase in Dec this year, Services Institute of Medical Sciences Principal Prof Dr Ayaz Mahmood told Dawn.

He said the senior doctors of the Services Hospital Lahore played a key role in getting the posts included Prof Waris Farooka, Dr Hanif and medical superintendent Dr Iftikhar Ahmad, besides health secretary Barrister Nabeel Awan and finance secretary Abdullah Sumbal.The tower has latest equipments, including 180-slice CT Scan machine, which is hardly available in any public sector health facility in Punjab, MRI, security cameras, fluoroscopy, mammography, ultrasound machines and centrally air conditioner system.

It houses two basements, radiology unit at ground and first floor, dermatology at second floor, thoracic and pulmonology units at third and fourth floor while neurology, neurosurgery, ENT and seven operation theatres at upper stories.

As par plan, all the medical stories functioning at various parts of the hospital will be shifted to one of the basements of the tower, the principal said, adding that the other basement was dedicated for the parking of cars and motorbikes.

Presently, the basement can park 200 cars and 100 motorbikes.

According to official documents, the finance department accorded concurrence to the creation of 275 posts for the in-question block after Chief Minister Usman Buzdar approved the same.

Of them 77 seats were created for the radiology department, including one slot of professor (BS20), eight of senior registrar (BS18), 20 of medical officers (BS17), five of technologists (BS 17), six of staff nurses (BS16), four of junior computer operator (BS14), 20 of junior technicians (BS9) and others of receptionists, naib qasids, etc.

Similarly, 21 seats of various scales were created for department of infectious diseases, seven for dermatology, 23 for department of thoracic surgery, 14 for pulmonology, 13 for neurosurgery, 15 for neurology, 10 for ENT-I, 15 for ENT and head neck surgery-II, 52 for department of ENT, thoracic surgery and neurosurgery, 26 for intensive care unit while others for the store department.

An official said some departments have already been made functional by making appointment of required doctors, nurses and employees from other departments of the hospital.

He said that as per plan, the radiology unit of the said block would be made one of the best facility in any public sector hospitals of the province by providing dialysis machines and other necessary equipment.

Published in Dawn, September 19th, 2020

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