Merit violation: PHC stays recruitments on 226 health dept posts
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday calm a authorities endangered from creation recruitments on 226 empty posts of supervision cadres in a health department.
The justice also released notices to a secretary and director-general of a dialect to contention replies compartment subsequent conference and explain irregularities as claimed by petitioners.
The confining sequence was released on a petition filed by 21 comparison doctors, including Dr Muhammad Saleem, alleging defilement of manners and regulations in a recruitment on a empty posts.
The petitioners claimed that irregularities were committed by a health dialect in promotions of doctors in Management Cadre.
When a conference commenced before a multiplication dais headed by Justice Syed Afsar Shah, petitioners’ warn Ijaz Khan Sabi argued that a petitioners were holding MBBS and master’s degrees in Public Health.
He pronounced a infancy of them have served or have been portion on executive posts during a supervision cadre for a past several years and have applicable knowledge to request for a post advertised.
“On Jul 14, 2009, a health dialect director-general has communicated to a health secretary a final list of employees who have exercised their choice to join a supervision cadre,” he stated.
The warn pronounced a supervision had given one-week deadline to a petitioners possibly to join a supervision or training cadre.
Moreover, Sabi argued another anomaly was committed when a health director-general combined names of those doctors in a supervision cadre who had finished their degrees after a expiry date.
He contended that a respondents have enclosed even those doctors whose degrees were questionable.
“They do not have Master in Public Health grade that is a prerequisite; rather, they have finished their masters in Business Administration and Executive Master in Business Administration that are not relevant,” he argued.
He settled that in Nov 2009, it was motionless to ask doctors who have diploma/degrees in supervision subjects to register their supervision degrees with a PMDC during a earliest.
Sabi pronounced a infancy of doctors whose name were on a list had not purebred their additional qualification.
The dais stayed recruitments on a challenged posts and asked a respondents to contention their replies. In a petition, it is forked out that on Sep 10, 2009 around 20 doctors were given graduation from BPS-17 to BPS-18 from a list of a supervision cadre.
“Astonishingly, a same doctors were given promotions to BPS-19 in ubiquitous cadres on Nov 19, 2011 by notifications on several dates,” it said.
It pronounced that a petitioners had time and again highlighted illegality in a promotions and irregularities in a promotions to a supervision cadre and applications were changed to a arch secretary and a Establishment Department secretary, though to no avail.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 7th, 2016.
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