Health dept hires 10 doctors, technologists

Recruitment approved for NMU’s Pathology Lab to deal with Covid-19 emergency

MULTAN: To deal with the coronavirus pandemic, Punjab Health Department has approved the recruitment of 10 new doctors and five technologists for Nishtar Medical University (NMU) and hospital’s Pathology Laboratory.

The details obtained by The Express Tribune revealed that the list of names for final recruitment was sent to Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Department by NMU and hospital administration after conducting walk-in interviews of various doctors and technologists to deal with the coronavirus emergency. In this regard, Punjab Health Department had finalised the names of 10 doctors from the list sent to the NMU vice chancellor and issued a recruitment notification.

‘Doctors on frontline of Covid-19 battle’

The doctors who were finalised for the pathology laboratory included Dr Syed Musa Kazim, Dr Muhammad Salman Ashraf, Dr Saad Junaid, Dr Muhammad Imran, Dr Sarah Benesh, Dr Behram Hussain, Dr Muhammad Khawar Abbas, Dr Urooj Fatima, Dr Mehreen Khalid, and Dr Muhammad Sanaullah. The five technologists, recruited for said laboratory were sent to Multan Nishtar Hospital’s medical superintendent. These technologists included Shahnaz, Tayyab, Mehwish, Mohammad Khalid and Mehnaz Latif.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 5^th, 2020.