PHC verdict allows 800 K-P doctors to specialise

March 15 deadline for K-P govt to implement Peshawar High Court decision

PESHAWAR: Doctors in the province on Monday welcomed a decision by the Peshawar High Court (PHC) which will allow at least 800 doctors to receive specialisation training who was earlier denied the opportunity by the provincial government.

Pakistan Doctors Associa­tion (PDA) Information Secretary Dr Saleem Khan in a statement on Monday said that the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) decision will help make room for some 800 doctors out of 1,350 who were deprived of specialisation training despite passing the examination.

In light of the court orders, he added, these medics will receive training in some 12 public teaching hospitals across the province.

The doctors’ community has expressed joy over the PHC’s decision and further put forward the demand for inducting doctors under the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) 2013 formula.

The PDA representative further said that the court has set the deadline of March 15 for the government to implement the decision. He added that previously, the government had decided to induct only 385 of 1,350 doctors who had cleared the specialisation exam.

Under the CPSP formula, he explained, there were multiple vacant seats in different healthcare facilities across the province.

Besides this, the PDA information secretary said that the CPSP had recently accredited Qazi Hussain Medical Complex, KMU and Kohat Institute of Medical Sciences, adding that around 50 doctors could be inducted there as well.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 10^th, 2020.