KOHAT: Grand Health Alliance, Kohat division, announced at a meeting on Thursday to launch a movement against privatisation of hospitals and end to permanent jobs by the provincial government under its Medical Teaching Institution (MTI) programme.
The meeting called by the alliance’s provincial president Dr Ameer Taj was held at Liaquat Memorial Hospital and it was attended by office-bearers from all districts of Kohat division.
They condemned that the government was throwing them to the contractors who could throw them out of service and decrease their contract limit anytime.
The participants were briefed about the facility management bill, 2022, health card and privatisation of the hospitals.
They said the staff of those hospitals whose tenders had been floated for privatisation must come out and start protests to reject the process.It was also decidedto take into confidence the local people, lawyers and political parties into confidence in the awareness campaign about MTIs’ negative impact on the poor people.
PSECO CRITICISED: Commercial and domestic consumers here on Thursday criticised Pesco for frequent unscheduled power outages for the lastone month.
Sada-e-Kohat chairman Zahid Hussain and Saeed Akhtar of Karwane Kohat in complaints sent to the executive engineer asked for reasons for excessive loadshedding on the city feeders which had 90 per cent recovery rates.
They said that under the law the areas where the losses were not above 60 per cent were exempted from loadshedding, but the Pesco officials did not care about it.
PROMOTION: The commissioner and DIG, Kohat division, pinned the badges of the senior superintendent of police to three officials on their promotion on Thursday.
At a ceremony at the commissioner’s house, commissioner Javed Marwat and DIG Tahir Ayub attached the badges of SSP on the shoulders of Kohat SP Inayat Ali Shah, Karak SP Shafiullah Khan Gandapur and Orazkai SP Nisar Ahmed.
Meanwhile, JUI-F MPA Shahdad Khan inaugurated a link road completed at a cost of Rs20 million in Sorgul area the other day. He was also accompanied by Kohat city mayor Qari Sher Zaman.
Published in Dawn, September 9th, 2022
