Minister orders fast process of promotion of doctors, staff

LAHORE

The 45th meeting of Board of Governors of Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex (SZMC), Lahore, was held on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Punjab Minister for Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Khawaja Salman Rafiq at Civil Secretariat.

SZMC Chairman Prof Farid Ahmad, MPA Ghazali Saleem Butt, Law Secretary Abul Hassan Najmi, Prof Anwar A Khan, UHS VC Prof Junaid Sarfraz, MM Khan, LCCI President Abdul Basit, Finance  additional secretary and health consultant Dr Naeem-ud-Din Mian also attended the meeting.

According to a handout issued here, the BoG gave approval for conducting technical scrutiny and evaluation of upgrade of liver transplantation scheme for which the health minister directed the officers concerned to constitute a technical committee headed by Dr Naeem-ud-Din Mian. The BoG also approved upgrade of the Executive Clinic of the hospital.  The BoG directed the officers concerned to improve the quality of food provided to the patients in the hospital.

Kh Salman Rafiq said that the Executive Clinic should be made a state-of-the-art centre. He directed that the process of promotion of the doctors and staff to the next grades should be carried out on fast track. He approved formation of Departmental Promotion Committees for this purpose. 

The meeting also discussed the issues of recruitment and promotion of faculty members, doctors and other staff.

SZMC Chairman Prof Farid Ahmad informed that tenders had been issued for setting up a pharmacy. He said that an evaluation committee had been constituted for considering the tenders. The BoG also deliberated on the issue of de-freezing of the health allowance of the staff and constituted a committee consisting of the officers of Health, Finance and Regulations Departments to evaluate the issue and submit its report for resolving the issue at the earliest.

seminar: Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) in collaboration with Govt College University organised a seminar entitled “What is Liberalism” on Wednesday at GCU. The event was participated by the students and teachers from different departments of GCU. 

Speaking on the occasion, chairperson of CSJ Wajahat Masood said, “Liberalism encompasses accepting possibility of being wrong, compassion / empathy, productivity and human freedom. It has nothing to do with belief and dress code, and nothing like judging others from their appearance and practices. Liberalism is to respect norms and accept the challenge of non-existence. Without modesty and humanity, there is no concept and ideals of liberalism. Liberalism values and accepts both diverse perspectives one that conserves wanting to regulate things, and other that liberates wanting to inaugurate, improvise and experiment. A person can be called liberal if he or she has empathy for others, and has love for knowledge, creativity, productivity, and strives for equality of rights and opportunities.”

The executive director of the CSJ, Peter Jacob, said the event has contributed to treat some of the misunderstanding and misconception among youth in particular regarding liberalism.