DADU, Aug 1: Specialist doctors of the Dadu Civil Hospital appealed on Tuesday to the Sindh chief minister to form a committee to prepare service structure for specialists. Gulzar Ahmed Shaikh (ophthalmologist), Mohammad Ismail Lashari (paediatrician), Ghulam Qasim Chandio (surgeon), Ali Ahmed Soomro (pathologist), Ali Hassan Baladi (physician), M Hassan Mangi (radiologist), Nisar Ahmed Shaikh (urologist), Zahoor Ahmed Shaikh (cardiologist) and Mohammad Rafi Siddiqui (chest specialist) complained that the health department had always neglected them with regard to promotions.

They said that the specialists had been awaiting promotions since last 28 years and complained that most of the doctors in teaching cadre who had been their students, had been promoted to 19 or 20 grade and become their bosses.

Breach: Paddy crop on 200 acres, a fish pond and 50 houses were flooded in Shafi Mohammad Jatoi village of Mehar taluka when Dhamrah wah developed a 50-foot wide breach on Tuesday.

The villagers held the irrigation officials responsible for the breach and staged a demonstration on Gul Mohammad link road against the officials demanding compensation for the damages to their lands and houses. They were still trying to plug the breach by the time this story was filed.

SEA PROTEST: Hundreds of teachers of primary and secondary schools observed a token hunger strike outside the press club on Tuesday in protest against Sindh Education Minister Hameda Khuhro for imposing a ban on teachers’ organisations.