HMC employees directed to use biometric system for attendance

PESHAWAR: The Board of Governors (BoGs) of the Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) on Wednesday directed all employees of the Medical and Teaching Institute to record their attendance through biometric or else the hospital administration will deduct money from their salaries as per rules.
The BoG members said all the staff members, who have not registered themselves in biometric system, should register themselves before November 10, 2015 as salaries to the hospital employees would be paid as per biometric attendance from November 2015.
The employees of the hospital have also been informed to verify their biometric record from the Information Technology (IT) section of the hospital registered or non-registered.
Also, the BoG members said every new employee should record his or her fingerprint for biometric or else their salary would not be prepared.
The board also directed heads of departments, units, sections to submit their duty roster on monthly basis to the IT section of the hospital.
In case of internal transfer/change of shift duty, the IT section must be informed accordingly. The BoG decided that leave without sanction would be considered as absent from duty.
In the second phase, it decided that HMC would be linked with the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) and Ayub Teaching Hospital (ATH).
The BoG members also decided that all procurement for the hospital constituent institutes would be carried out online. The board made another important decision and that was about employees’ performance evaluation, which would encourage the hardworking staffers.
There will also be software collaboration between HMC and Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital.
It was announced that Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital had agreed to provide free services to them.
Through the software, the HMC administration would know about the number of patients examined by certain doctors and the biometric is linked with the payroll.
Presently, there is no check on hospital employees and some of them come for attendance and then secretly leave and work in private medical and surgical institutions and laboratories mostly located in vicinity of the hospitals.
There are some known and influential doctors who conduct surgical procedures during duty hours in their private medical and surgical centres while some of the physicians are better known for running their private clinics during official work.
Interestingly, most of the doctors opposing health reforms are those who never conduct surgical procedures or are willing to attend OPDs in hospitals but remain busy in their private clinics and so-called surgical centres till midnight where they earn millions of rupees a month.