Recruitment scam: Health dept forms teams to probe fake appointments

Jacobabad health dept asks employees to show educational certificates

KARACHI: In compliance with Supreme Court’s (SC) order issued on Tuesday, the Sindh health department has constituted an inquiry committee to probe into the fake appointments in Jacobabad health department.

Sindh Services Hospital Karachi medical superintendent Dr Khalid Shaikh has been appointed as the inquiry committee’s chairperson while Sindh Government Hospital, Korangi No 5, medical superintendent Dr Taufique Ahmed and health department technical additional secretary Dr Muhammad Aslam Pechuho are members of the committee.

Talking to The Express Tribune, Dr Khalid said that he had a meeting with health secretary Ahmed Bux Narejo on Wednesday, in which they discussed the matter of fake appointments in detail.

Dr Khalid added that he will visit Jacobabad on June 6 to investigate the matter. Dr Khalid has directed the Jacobabad district health officer (DHO) Dr Sawan Shaikh and other relevant officers to meet him with relevant record of appointments on June 6.





Dr Khalid has also directed all those employees who were appointed by the then Jacobabad DHO Dr Deedar Jamali, to appear in person before the inquiry committee on June 8 with their educational and experience certificates.

According to him, the committee will present its detailed report to the health ministry in 15 days, which will then be submitted in the SC.

On the complaint of Paramedics Association Jacobabad president Akbar Khoso, the SC recently took notice of 273 fake appointments made in 2008 and 2009 and ordered the health ministry to present its detailed report.

The health minister has directed the inquiry committee to bring the real facts to the front and hold accountable those who are found involved in this malpractice and corruption.

“The court’s orders would be implemented and all the facts would be presented before the department and the courts,” Dr Khalid said.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 2^nd, 2016.