No accountability: Suspended officials working on posts
Health secretary suspended 21 members of a family working in the health department
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SUKKUR:
Twenty-one members of a family are still working in the health department, Ghotki, despite being suspended by the then Sindh health secretary Dr Usman Chachar after intervention by the Supreme Court (SC).
The SC took notice of illegal appointments of more than four dozen members of the Chadhar family in the health department, Ghotki. During a hearing of the case in the SC on December 7, the health secretary had sought two weeks' time to probe the matter and submit the report. The court fixed January 5, 2017 as the next date of the hearing.
In the meantime, the health secretary issued on December 10 an order suspending 21 members of the Chadhar community who worked at Civil Hospital, Mirpur Mathelo. The suspended officials include Manzoor Ahmed, Muneer Ahmed, Bashir Ahmed, Iqbal Ahmed, Ghulam Farid and Muhammad Ayub, who are the sons of Muhammad Ramzan Chadhar.
However, according to reports, all the suspended officials are still working on their respective posts and no one has taken any action against them.
Earlier, the medical superintendent (MS) of Civil Hospital, Mirpur Mathelo, Dr Khalil Katpar was suspended and ordered to report to the Sindh Secretariat in Karachi and was then replaced by assistant MS Dr Abdul Latif Buriro, who was appointed acting MS. According to sources, Dr Buriro is behind most of the appointments of the Chadhar community men. Besides this, he is also said to be involved in theft of machinery from the newly constructed cardiology ward.
On contact, Buriro denied being the acting MS of Civil Hospital, Mirpur Mathelo and claimed that he is posted at Daharki Hospital and has nothing to do with Civil hospital.
According to sources, a huge number of Chadhar community men are working in the health department, Ghotki. Therefore, whenever any officer dares to take action against one of them, they boycott the in and out patient departments and blackmail the officers, sources claimed.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 25th, 2016.
Twenty-one members of a family are still working in the health department, Ghotki, despite being suspended by the then Sindh health secretary Dr Usman Chachar after intervention by the Supreme Court (SC).
The SC took notice of illegal appointments of more than four dozen members of the Chadhar family in the health department, Ghotki. During a hearing of the case in the SC on December 7, the health secretary had sought two weeks' time to probe the matter and submit the report. The court fixed January 5, 2017 as the next date of the hearing.
In the meantime, the health secretary issued on December 10 an order suspending 21 members of the Chadhar community who worked at Civil Hospital, Mirpur Mathelo. The suspended officials include Manzoor Ahmed, Muneer Ahmed, Bashir Ahmed, Iqbal Ahmed, Ghulam Farid and Muhammad Ayub, who are the sons of Muhammad Ramzan Chadhar.
However, according to reports, all the suspended officials are still working on their respective posts and no one has taken any action against them.
Earlier, the medical superintendent (MS) of Civil Hospital, Mirpur Mathelo, Dr Khalil Katpar was suspended and ordered to report to the Sindh Secretariat in Karachi and was then replaced by assistant MS Dr Abdul Latif Buriro, who was appointed acting MS. According to sources, Dr Buriro is behind most of the appointments of the Chadhar community men. Besides this, he is also said to be involved in theft of machinery from the newly constructed cardiology ward.
On contact, Buriro denied being the acting MS of Civil Hospital, Mirpur Mathelo and claimed that he is posted at Daharki Hospital and has nothing to do with Civil hospital.
According to sources, a huge number of Chadhar community men are working in the health department, Ghotki. Therefore, whenever any officer dares to take action against one of them, they boycott the in and out patient departments and blackmail the officers, sources claimed.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 25th, 2016.