PHC orders regularisation of dental surgeons in Fata hospitals

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday ordered the government to regularise services of dental surgeons in Fata hospitals.

A two-member bench comprising Justice NisarHussain Khan and Justice Muhammad Daud Khan ordered the government to regularise the services of dental surgeons in the hospitals.  The bench issued directives in the writ petition filed by eight dental surgeons serving in hospitals of Fata including Dr Mir Zaman.

The petitioners’ lawyer, Ijaz Anwar, submitted before the bench that the petitioners were appointed as dental surgeons in various hospitals of Fata. He informed the bench that after promulgation of regularisation act in Fata, all the MBBS doctors serving in hospitals of Fata were regularised, while the dental surgeons were ignored as dental surgeons were not mentioned in the regularisation act.

The lawyer said the government then made amendmentto the regularisation act and included the dental surgeons in it, but the petitioners were still not regularised.

After hearing arguments from both the parties, the court allowed the petition and directed the government to regularise the services of the dental surgeons in the Fata hospitals.

Separately, another division bench of the high court comprising Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and Justice MusarratHilali issued regularisation order for the adhoc employees of Agriculture University.

The court issued the orders in a writ petition of the adhoc employees, including Muhammad Ali Shah and others. The petitioners’ lawyer IjazSabi submitted before the bench that the employees had been working for years in the university.