Optometrists to be hired for RHCs

Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has lifted a ban on the induction of optometrists in grade 17 in the rural health centres (RHC) and filling of other posts related to vision sciences.

Addressing the second convocation of the College of Ophthalmology and Allied Vision Sciences of Kind Edward Medical University,

he said permission would subsequently be given for recruitment on all posts required by the health department. He assured the college's students that all possible resources would be provided for fulfilling their demands. The chief minister welcomed the arrival of students from all the provinces to the institution. They will serve the people in their provinces after completing their education as doctors.

He underscored that knowledge should be disseminated and the learning process for the students should continue forever.

He recalled that seats used to be allocated for female students in medical colleges in earlier decades.

The chief minister said it was not less than a test to become the ruler of a big province. He said he had established public welfare institutions on the basis of personal experiences.

He said the founder of the college, Prof Asad Aslam Khan had proposed to set up an institute of ophthalmology 18 years earlier and he had granted the permission.

The chief minister said the government was providing free medicines to patients in emergency wards and would pay three-fold salary to doctors performing duty there.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 20^th, 2022.