CM Punjab suspends 3 officers on lady Drs complaint
Lahore : Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has expressed strict indignation over the incident that occurred in Lady Doctors Hostel, Sahiwal. On the directions of the Chief Minister, Assistant Commissioner (Revenue) Ayub Bukhari, Assistant Commissioner (General) Babar Salman and DMS Hospital Dr. Akhtar Raza have been made OSD. They have also been relieved of their duties.
The Chief Minister has further directed to hold departmental inquiry against the three officers under PEEDA Act.
It would be important to mention here that Assistant Commissioner Ayub Bukhari, barged into the girl’s hostel of the DHQ teaching hospital Sahiwal to try and force doctors to act as ushers for a VVIP visit to a coal field power project in Qadarabad.
In a complaint letter signed by the Female house officers and Dr Ghazanfar Bukhari addressed to the principal of the Sahiwal Medical College, the complainants have claimed that AC Ayub Bukhari along with DMS DR Akhtar Raza entered the girls hostel at around 20 30 on July 1.The doctors alleged this was against the “lawful rules and regulations of medical ethics.”
A notification from the Assistant Commissioner’s office dated for the day after the alleged hostel invasion was issued in which 12 female doctors were called up to perform duties as ushers for the earlier mentioned VVIP visit to the power project in Qadarabad. The notification came only a day after the AC stormed the female hostels to personally order the students to go act as ushers.
It also raises questions over why exactly doctors are expected to do these needless duties normally reserved for young school children, when there is already a grave shortage of available medical professionals, especially in areas such as Sahiwal. And while it could be argued that the ladies called up for the task were only house officers and technically still students, the matter is a huge mismanagement of priorities. While their education may not be complete, calling in qualified doctors to spend their time ushering for VVIP’s, that already have sizable entourages to tell them where to walk, is a waste of precious human resources.
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