LARKANA, Jan 4: The executive district officer (health), Larkana, Dr Abdul Wahab Wadho, and the medical superintendent of the CMC, Dr Mehboob Shah, on Saturday opposed the conversion of the existing nursing school at the Chandka Medical College Teaching Hospital besides urging the government to lift the ban on the recruitment of nurses.

Advocating for the enforcement of the previous practice of bonded posts and the policy to exempt them from appearing in the Public Service Commission examinations, they said that the move to convert the nursing school would block the only channel of employment for girls while creating further shortage of trained medical staff in the interior of Sindh.

Terming the assertion of the director, nursing, Sindh, malafide, they said that the exiting school of nursing catered the needs of entire Sindh.

The CMCH, they said, like other hospitals in Sindh was already facing shortage of trained female nurses.

The health officials also criticized the non-availability of female tutors in the nursing school, saying that why Larkana alone was being targeted while similar nursing schools existed in Shikarpur, Sanghar, Mirpurkhas, Khairpur, Sukkur, Thatta, Badin, Hyderabad, Karachi and Nawabshah.