NIRM gets acting chief

Islamabad

The Capital Administration and Development Division has made Dr Faridullah Khan Zimri the acting director of the National Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine offering modern healthcare to the people with disabilities.

The development comes following the repatriation of NIRM director Dr Fazal-i-Maula, an employee of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government, on the orders of CADD secretary Hassan Iqbal.

Dr. Faridullah Khan Zimri, the head of the NIRM Orthopeadic and Physiotherapy Department, will act as a stand-in for the organisation’s permanent chief while holding the ‘look-after charge’ of the position.

He will also hold the additional charge of the Human Organs Transplant Authority chairman, a position previously held by Dr Fazal-i-Maula.

Dr Faridullah, the founder of Orthopaedic Associates Islamabad and a consultant orthopaedic surgeon, specialises in the care of patients with severe fractures, trauma, sports ligament injuries, pediatric orthopaedics, joint replacements, and skeletal deformity correction.