PIMS cancels recruitments

Islamabad: The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has cancelled its recruitment plan in line with the Supreme Court's orders.

On Monday, the court had ordered the Capital Administration and Development Division not to make new appointments to the government hospitals in the federal capital, including PIMS and Polyclinic, and ruled that the recruitment should be left for the next government to make. It, however, allowed the appointment of permanent heads to the hospitals.

Lately, the PIMS, the city's premier government hospital, had advertised 35 posts from BPS-1 to BPS-17 on contractual basis under the Project of up-gradation of Non-Radiation Diagnostic Services. These people were to be appointed for the one-year duration on both merit and provincial quota basis.

Now, in the wake of the Supreme Court's orders, the PIMS has withdrawn the advertisements in this respect citing 'unavoidable circumstances'.