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‘2,800 nurses to be regularised’

By our correspondents
June 22, 2017

LAHORE

Punjab Health Department has completed its home work to regularise 2,800 nurses who are working on contract basis in government hospitals presently.

Secretary Primary Health and Medical Education Najam Ahmed Shah has constituted a scrutiny committee, headed by Principal Post Graduate Medical Institute and Lahore General Hospital Prof Ghiyas-un-Nabi Tayyab, whose members met at Lahore General Hospital on Wednesday, according to a handout issued here.

Director General Nursing Kausar Perveen told the meeting that 2,800 nurses are working on contract in Punjab whose reports about performance and other credentials have been sent to health department after due verification by the medical superintendents and nursing administration of their hospitals. The members of the committee scrutinised the record of the nurses during the meeting.