HYDERABAD, Feb 11: The doctors who have passed Sindh Public Service Commission examination staged a demonstration outside the press club here on Saturday in protest against cancellation of their results by the Sindh chief minister.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Zamir Abbasi, Dr Asghar Shah and Dr Faraz Hussain said that on the one hand the government had announced that there was an acute shortage of doctors in the interior of Sindh while on the other hand the commission pass doctors were being compelled to come out on the roads.

They demanded that the Sindh chief minister should take back the decision and restore justice to the commission pass doctors.

Meanwhile, unsuccessful candidates Dr Fayaz Rajpar, Shoukat Panhwar and Shahnawaz demanded that the examination should be re-conducted and the chairman of the commission should be removed for involving unfair means in the results.

DCO: Hyderabad DCO Mohammad Hussain Syed has formed a 4-member health welfare committee to provide a proper medical cover to mentally-retarded patients at the Sir C.J. Institute of Psychiatry Hyderabad.

This he decided while presiding over a meeting regarding providing supplement assistance to the Sir C.J. hospital to improve health facilities to patients at his office here on Saturday.

He said there were many patients admitted to the psychiatry hospital, who were either not being attended by their families or they could not afford the treatment cost.

As such it is the duty of the authority concerned to adopt ways and means and ensure proper medical cover to them.

He said that in order to ensure proper treatment of such destitute patients 4-member health welfare committee headed by medical superintendent, Sir C.J. Hospital with district zakat officer, zakat chairman taluka Latifabad, concerned social welfare officer and one psychiatric doctor as member had been formed.

Initially an amount of Rs600,000 from zakat fund has been provided to the committee to start health welfare work at the hospital.

He said the district government had provided an amount of Rs300,000 each to the Bhittai hospital and the Qasimabad taluka hospital to provide medical facilities to poor patients.

He said that an amount of Rs700,000 had also been provided to the LUMHS hospital by the central zakat council with a view to help poor patients.

The DCO directed the officers concerned to adopt simple procedure in a way that poor and illiterate people could easily get medical treatment from zakat fund, besides transparency in utilization of these funds should be ensured.

The DCO stressed the need for reactivating district health management committee to improve health facilities and extend welfare work at other hospitals of the district as well.

He appealed to philanthropists to contribute to the efforts of the district government in providing medical facilities to the poor patients.