As many as 50 doctors have been provided house jobs at Allied Hospital allegedly in violation of the Punjab government.
In December 2013, the health secretary had banned provision of house jobs at public hospitals to graduates from private colleges and those from China.
A Punjab Medical College officer, not wishing to be named, told The Express Tribune that the health secretary had issued a notification barring government hospitals from hiring private college graduates and those who had completed medical education in China.
He claimed that some government hospitals had violated the rule.
One of these, he said, was Allied Hospital, where 50 such medical officers were working.
He said by filling these positions with ineligible graduates, the hospital had been depriving deserving students of house jobs.
Allied Hospital Medical Superintendent Rashid Maqbool admitted to hiring private medical college students as medical officers. He said that these graduates were taken in before the secretary had issued the notification. He said they could not be removed. He said no such hiring had been made after the orders.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 5th, 2014.