HYDERABAD, April 10: Sindh Health Minister Shabbir Ahmed Kaimkhani has assured postgraduate doctors that their stipends will be enhanced and the matter will be taken up in the next cabinet meeting.
The minister told newsmen on the sidelines of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Services convocation in Jamshoro on Sunday the allocation for health sector would also see an in increase in the next budget.
He said the doctors in Punjab were getting Rs10,000 while in Sindh they were receiving only Rs6,000 and the amount would be increased soon.
Mr Shabbir assured doctors of resolving their problems confronting house job doctors and health sector and said Sindh faced shortage of doctors. The government would, therefore, appoint them on contract basis and post them in their respective districts at rural health centres and basic health units, he said.
He said the doctors’ appointments would start soon after appointments in education sector within a few weeks.
The minister said he had found during his surprise visits the health units in interior Sindh were in a very shabby condition. It was, therefore, obligatory for graduating doctors to serve in their respective areas for at least two to three years, he said.
TRIBUTE: The vice-chancellor of the Shah Abdul Latif University, Professor (Dr) A R Malik, on Monday paid rich tribute to the late Allama I I Kazi, the founder of the Sindh University, who, he said spent his life nurturing the university.
Dr Malik said in his address to the inauguration ceremony for a four-day paintings and posters’ exhibition organised by the Institute of Arts and Design in connection with the university’s Founder’s Week programme, the late Allama had a very clear vision about serving the society through education.
A number of colourful paintings of the great scholar and philosopher and his wife, Mrs Elsa Kazi, besides a host other paintings depicting different aspects of life were put on display in the exhibition, which was attended by members of university syndicate, deans of faculties, heads of institutes and departments, university officials and students.
Dr Malik said it was a great honour for him to listen to weekly lectures Allama Saheb used to deliver in those days.
He said it was Allama’s dream to raise the university on a sound footing. Allama himself translated his dream into a reality by selecting a site in the mountainous area of Jamshoro which had now grown into a city of universities.
He said Shah Abdul Latif University had named its auditorium after Allama and asked the students of the Institute of Arts and Design to paint Allama’s life size portrait for which his university would pay Rs10,000 to them. The portrait would be hung in the auditorium, he said.
Dean Faculty of Arts, Dr Mohammad Qasim Bughio said late Allama Saheb’s services in spreading the message of Islam, which in fact was a message of love and peace, could never be forgotten.
The university registrar, Dr Saeed Ahmed Soomro, said in his speech Mrs Elsa Kazi herself was an artist of high calibre. Kazi family had preserved her paintings, he said.
