PESHAWAR, April 12: Unjust distribution of amount generated through the institutional-based practice (IBP) has become a bone of contention among its shareholders, sources at city’s hospitals told Dawn.   The distribution of share among technical staff in three teaching hospitals — Lady Reading Hospital, Khyber Teaching Hospital and Hayatabad Medical Complex — has become a burning issue because the administration is reluctant to give them the share according to their performance.

“The administration is trying to give us a fixed amount between Rs500 and Rs1,000 a month which is unjust and we would not accept it,” said a technician at one of the city’s hospitals. According to him, he alone had earned Rs70,000 for hospital in March and wanted share out of that amount.

There are also reports that the administration of city’s hospitals have included extra staff in the IBP which is creating problems in share distribution.

“Social Welfare Officer has also been made a shareholder in the IBP in LRH while his duty according to his job description is to sit in psychiatry ward and look after the patients there. Similarly, only one DMS is needed and there is no logic to appoint a dozen in each hospital. They hinder the smooth running of the IBP,” said a technician at one hospital.

Inclusion of clerical staff was a burden on the IBP because, technicians said, they performed the test of private or OPD patients, give them receipts and deposit the money at banks in morning shift and could do the same in evening shift.

An official of LRH told Dawn the government had previously devised a formula according to which 60 per cent amount would go to the consultant, 20 per cent to the supporting staff and 20 per cent to hospital fund from the income generated through institutional-based practice.

The health department, he said, would now devise another formula in two or three days according to which the share could be distributed because the share offered to the technical staff didn’t make up even for the food they took in one month while the share received by the administrative people is quite high.

An official at Khyber Teaching Hospital, where about 100 people associated with the scheme, said a meeting of Institutional Management Committee of the hospital had been convened on April 11 to solve the issue of share distribution among the enraged health workers.

“If the government is serious in making the new scheme a success, it should devise a formula which is acceptable to all shareholders because the IBP is a source of income for hospitals and those associated with it should be paid accordingly,” said a consultant.