Making history: First female agency surgeon appointed in Kurram

Dr Moin Begum was previously a senior medical officer at LRH.

PARACHINAR: In a first for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), a woman has been appointed as an agency surgeon at Agency Headquarters Hospital (AHQ), Parachinar.

Dr Moin Begum was appointed as the agency surgeon by the health department and FATA Secretariat in Kurram Agency and assumed charge on Tuesday.



Before her appointment, Dr Moin was a senior medical officer at Lady Reading Hospital and deputy medical superintendent at Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Lahore. She has also served in Parachinar AHQ as a gynaecologist, but was later transferred to Peshawar.

Addressing journalists from her office in Parachinar, Dr Moin said the government and health department had trusted her with the responsibilities of the post, adding she would strive hard to serve the people of the agency.

Dr Moin added she would work on social and health related issues. “Issues facing women will be my priority, as females across Fata are deprived of their basic rights,” she maintained. “I will struggle hard to educate and provide health facilities for women in the agency.”

Published in The Express Tribune, July 3^rd, 2013.