Senior LRH doctors to be rehired

Professors, associate and assistant professors, medical officers will be hired domestically and internationally

PESHAWAR:

The government has decided to rehire senior doctors for the vacant positions at Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, which became vacant after several senior doctors left the hospital.

Professors, associate professors, assistant professors, and medical officers will be hired both domestically and internationally for various departments.

The hospital administration has advertised the vacant positions. Sources indicate that during the caretaker government, the hospital faced severe issues due to a lack of funding. Many senior doctors with extensive training left the hospital, causing significant difficulties for key departments, which were left without senior doctors.

Sources state that, among them, the ICU specialist team under Dr. Luqman saw four consultants leave their jobs.

Similarly, Dr. Tariq Baber Soheil from pediatric heart surgery and two consultants from his team also left. Two senior doctors from the anesthesia department, three consultants from adult cardiac surgery, and three consultants from pediatric surgery also resigned.

According to sources, most of the doctors and more than 400 nurses left the hospital due to the lack of medical supplies, inadequate facilities, and non-payment of salaries.