LAHORE, March 14: In a major reshuffle in the health department, the Punjab government on Tuesday transferred and posted 35 executive district officers (health) and medical superintendents of different hospitals in the province.

The officials, who have been transferred, include EDO (health), Lahore, Dr Abdul Qayyum; Punjab Institute of Cardiology medical superintendent Dr Muhammad Javed and National Programme for Family Planning and Primary Healthcare (NPFP&PH), Punjab, provincial coordinator Dr Javed Omar.

The government has kept the posts of PIC medical superintendent and NPFP&PH provincial coordinator vacant.

In an unprecedented move, the government directed all officials to relinquish and assume the charge of their new assignments immediately under intimation to the health department, failing which they will be liable to be proceeded against under the disciplinary rules.

According to the notification, EDO (health), Lahore, Dr Abdul Qayyum has been transferred and posted as EDO (health) Sargodha vice Dr Javed Hasan Ajmi. Dr Inamul Haq, district officer (health), Gujrat, has been promoted as principal medical officer (PMO) in BPS-20 on regular basis and posted as EDO (health), Lahore.

Punjab Institute of Cardiology medical superintendent Dr Muhammad Javed has been transferred and posted as EDO (health), Faisalabad, vice Dr Umer Farooq Khan, who is directed to report to the health department for further orders.

Dr Rehmat Ali Imran, medical superintendent of the newly established 125-bed Hospital, Okara, transferred and posted as EDO (health) Bahawalpur, in his own pay and scale vice Dr Arshad Iqbal Dar, transferred.

Dr Dar has been posted as EDO (health) Gujranwala, vice Dr Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Khan Niazi, transferred.

Dr Niazi has been posted as medical superintendent of Government Allama Iqbal Memorial Hospital, Sialkot, vice Dr Muhammad Arif Saeed, transferred.

Dr Saeed has been posted as medical superintendent of Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur, relieving Dr Altaf Husain Malik of additional charge.

Dr Mussarrat Husain Abdullah, medical superintendent of THQ Hospital, Pindi Gheb, district Attock, has been transferred and posted as EDO (health), Attock, vice Dr Zafar Iqbal Gondal, transferred.

Dr Gondal has been posted as EDO (health), Rawalpindi, in his own pay and scale vice Dr Syed Abid Hussain Shah, transferred.

Dr Shah has been posted as PMO at Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi, against a vacant post.

Dr Nisar Ahmad Cheema, medical superintendent of DHQ Hospital, Gujranwala, has been transferred and posted as EDO (health), Sahiwal, vice Dr Muhammad Ishaq, transferred.

Dr Ishaq has been posted as Surgeon Medico-Legal Punjab against a vacant post.

Dr Javed Hasan Ajmi, EDO (health), Sargodha, has been transferred and posted as medical superintendent of Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Rahimyar Khan, vice Dr Sohail Ahmad Baloch, transferred.

Dr Baloch has been posted as medical superintendent of DHQ Hospital, Sahiwal, vice Dr Muhammad Javed Akhtar, transferred.

Dr Akhtar has been posted as medical superintendent, DHQ Hospital, Gujranwala, vice Dr Nisar Ahmad Cheema, transferred.

Dr Capt Asif Ali Kazmi, DO (health) Bahawalnagar, has been transferred and posted as EDO (health) Lodhran vice Dr Habibur Rehman, transferred.

Dr Rehman has been posted as EDO (health) Khanewal, vice Dr Muhammad Tariq Gillani, transferred.

Dr Gillani has been posted as APMO, DHQ Hospital, Vehari, against a vacant post.

Dr Ashiq Hussain Cheema, awaiting posting in the health department has been posted as EDO (health), Bahawalnagar, vice Dr Capt Mushtaq Ahmad, transferred.

Dr Ahmad has been posted as EDO (health) Rahimyar Khan, in his own pay and scale vice Dr Muhammad Sadiq, transferred.

Dr Sadiq has been posted as PMO, BV Hospital, Bahawalpur, against a vacant post.

Dr Saeed Ullah Khan, DO (health) Gujranwala, has been transferred and posted as EDO (health), Hafizabad, vice Dr Riasat Ali, transferred.

Dr Ali has been posted as DO (health) Gujranwala, vice Dr Saeed Ullah Khan, transferred.

Dr Capt Mumtaz Ahmad, APMO, DHQ Hospital, Faisalabad, has been transferred and posted as EDO (health), Mianwali, vice Dr Capt Nasir Khan, transferred.

Dr Khan has been posted as DOH (HQ), Sargodha, against a vacant post.

Dr Javed Omar, NPFP&PH provincial coordinator has been transferred and posted as EDO (health) Sialkot, vice Dr Capt. Khalid Mehmood, transferred.

Dr Mehmood has been posted as medical superintendent of Allied Hospital, Faisalabad, against a vacant post.

Dr Asif Qadir Mir, additional medical superintendent (AMS) at Rawalpindi General Hospital has been transferred and posted as EDO (health) Jhelum, in his own pay scale vice Dr Atta Ullah Awan, transferred.

Dr Awan has been posted as PMO at Lahore General Hospital against a vacant post. Dr Muhammad Jamil, EDO (health) T.T. Singh, has been transferred and posted as EDO (health) Kasur, vice Dr Zulfiqar Ali, transferred.

Dr Ali has been posted as medical superintendent at the newly established 125-bed hospital, Okara, vice Dr Rehmat Ali Imran, transferred.

Dr Muhammad Akram, awaiting posting in the health department, has been posted as EDO (health) T.T. Singh, vice Dr Muhammad Jamil, transferred.

Dr Capt Muhammad Siddique, awaiting posting in the health department, has been transferred and posted as medical superintendent at DHQ Hospital, Faisalabad, relieving Dr Imtiaz Hamid of the additional charge.

Dr Muhamad Ayub Ansari, DO (health) Khushab, has been posted as EDO (health) Bhakkar, against a vacant post.

Dr Mukhtar Hussain Syed, medical superintendent at DHQ Hospital, Bhakkar, has been posted as EDO (health) Rajanpur, vice Dr Muhammad Hasan who has been directed to report to the health department for further orders.