PESHAWAR, March 15: The NWFP health department has been conducting large-scale transfers of senior doctors since last week, Dawn learned on Saturday.

“The ban on the transfers in the health department would be lifted by March end and a massive shuffle is expected,” said the sources, adding that the government had already ordered a list of doctors working in BPS-17 and 18, and had completed their three-year tenure in Peshawar or at other stations.

The government has also taken exception to doctors holding administrative posts in Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH), Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) and Ayub Teaching Hospital (ATH), for almost 10 years, but had somehow managed to escape transfers.

In LRH and KTH, there are a dozen doctors deputy Medical Superintendents (DMSs) for almost last 15 years, said the sources.

These sources also informed that as a rule, each of these hospitals should have had only two DMSs — one each for administration and store.

According to rules all doctors must be transferred every three years, but this was not being done.

This time round due to the expected shuffle some BHU doctors could get posted in city hospitals.

The sources said that it was mandatory for doctors appearing in postgraduate examinations to be posted in a teaching hospitals, for at least two years.

The district specialists, directors and deputy directors must also make way for deserving people to occupy important positions, the sources said.