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LARKANA, Oct 2: The Sindh government plans to hand over non-functional basic health units (BHUs) to non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
The government has arrived at this conclusion after studying a tendency among doctors to serve in remote areas and the fact that the BHUs remained ineffective due to non-provision of medical facilities and the paramedics.
Under the new strategy, NGOs would solely be in charge of such health units, and they would arrange for doctors and medicines, while the buildings would be handed over to them for onward maintenance, sources said.
In this regard, the health department sought the help of Zila Nazims to help make these BHUs functional.
Larkana Zila Nazim Khurshid Junijo held a preliminary meeting with the Sindh health secretary in Karachi and discussed with him the ifs and buts of the plan.
According to the decision, NGOs would later establish contacts with donor agencies for the smooth running of the health units and even local doctors and paramedics could be recruited at their places of domicile.
The health secretary is scheduled to visit the Larkana district within a couple of days to finalize the programme, the sources said.
PTCL STAFF: The PTCL lines staff union on Tuesday decried dishonouring of salary cheques after the paying authority was vested with the general-manager instead of the engineers concerned.
Union representatives told this correspondent that 20 salary cheques, issued for one bank only, had been dishonoured.
It was a routine that the employees confronted every month, they said, adding that such difficulties had arisen in the wake of resting salary-paying powers with the general manager of the STR-V of the PTCL.
They demanded of the chairman to revert to the old way of making salary payments, in which station officers (divisional engineers) were authorized to issue cheques.
KILLED: Two persons were killed on Tuesday in separate incidents in different parts of Larkana district.
Yar Mohammad Magsi was killed in village Gul Mohammad Brohi in the jurisdiction of Bahram police station some 30 kilometers off here.
The murder was the outcome of old enmity, police sources said.
In another incident a villager Mohammad Khuhro was killed in kutcha area in the jurisdiction of Keti Mumtaz police station.
A land dispute was behind the murder, the police said.
APPLICATION REJECTED: Rejecting revision application of the principal of Chandka Medical College (CMC), Sindh High Court (SHC) Larkana circuit bench on Tuesday allowed Ms Ashraf Khatoon to continue her studies at the CMC.
The principal had moved the court on the grounds Ashraf Khatoon had neither obtained the permission of relaxation gap nor paid fees for admission in first year MBBS after she was admitted to the college on chief minister’s quota.
The advocate for the respondent pleaded she had given the fees to a college official and when who later said receipt would be provided to her as he had deposited the fees.
He added the college administration had never asked her for depositing the fees in case she had not earlier deposited it. On the contrary father of Ashraf Khatoon had approached the college administration agreeing to deposit the fees again but the administration did not reply.
Justice Attaur Rehman asked Ashraf Khatoon to deposit admission fees within 20 days to save the college from loss and to keep the record straight.
Two lower courts had already passed judgments in favour of Ashraf Khatoon.
