PESHAWAR, June 20: The provincial health department has made one-year service in peripheral district headquarters hospitals prerequisite for FCPS doctors’ recruitment as senior registrars. The decision was taken in a meeting presided over by NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah Khan at the Lady Reading Hospital on Monday, a handout said.

The meeting endorsed the decision of the College of Physicians and Surgeons for arranging rotation of postgraduates trainees in the last year of their FCPS training to the peripheral DHQ hospitals in the province.

Trainee medical officer will be provided training opportunities for six months at DHQ hospitals where recognized consultants would be available in the respective disciplines. In the first phase the trainees will be rotated to the DHQ hospitals in Kohat, Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Mansehra, Timergara, Mardan, Swat and Charsadda.

The meeting also discussed ensuring arrangements for facilitating the trainee medical officers in such institutions.