Doctors recruited by the Sindh government on urgent basis to meet the emergency during the Covid pandemic cannot get permanent status, said the Sindh High Court (SHC) in its written order.
The court rejected the application of Dr Saima Asif and others regarding the permanency of their positions.
The stand taken in the petition was that recruitment was done on an ad-hoc basis in 2020 during the Covid pandemic and the doctors were to be made permanent in Grade 17 after the ad-hoc period was over. However, the court dismissed the plea, stating that the petitioners' lawyers were unable to convince the court on how the doctors could be made permanent after being hired on ad-hoc basis.
The written judgment said that the recruitment was done on an ad-hoc basis during the pandemic, and the petitioners' lawyers failed to provide a satisfactory argument on how this could be changed. The court rejected the plea and issued a decision that the doctors would not be made permanent in their positions.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 5th, 2023.
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