LARKANA, Aug 23: District Nazim Mohammad Bakhsh Arijo gave offer job letters to five lady doctors to be appointed under the President’s Primary Healthcare Initiative (PPHI) Programme at his office on Wednesday. The nazim said that the district government would solve the problem of shortage of doctors in basic health units and dispensaries in the district by appointing lady doctors, and hoped he would be able to provide healthcare facilities to people as he had promised in open kutchehries held at different places in the district.

The director of PPHI Sindh, Dr. Riaz Memon, said that the Sindh government had allocated Rs275 million under the programme and asked doctors to be punctual and serve people in the areas of their posting.

He informed that Rs500 million had been earmarked for providing Schedule of New Expenditure (SNE) for the basic health units and this programme had already been started in nine districts of the province.

The District Support Manager of the Programme, Larkana, Saifullah Abro, said that each lady doctor would look after five basic health units and visit the basic health unit in every week and provide healthcare facilities. She would get Rs30,000 as salary.

The newly-appointed DCO of Larkana, Ghulam Mustafa Phull and EDO Health, Dr.Mohammad Shareef Shaikh, also spoke and assured their full cooperation in this regard. Later, the district nazim handed over offer letters along with medical kit to five lady doctors including Dr. Samina Sodhar, Dr. Kanwal Mustafa Soomro, Dr. Roshna Parveen Jalbani, Dr. Kanta Bai Ahuja and Dr. Rubina Bano Qureshi. The in-charges of Basic Health Units were given wireless telephone.