KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has restrained the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) authorities from taking any 'coercive' action against Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC)'s joint executive director Dr Seemin Jamali and executive director Prof Tasnim Ahsan.
Headed by Chief Justice Maqbool Baqar, the bench also issued notice to the PMDC president, the provincial health secretary and the Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) vice-chancellor to file comments.
The petitioners, Dr Jamali and Prof Ahsan, had challenged in the court the show-cause notices served on them by the PMDC management on September 27. They said that notices directed them to appear before PMDC's disciplinary committee to explain why strict disciplinary action may not be initiated against them for not cooperating with the PMDC's team during inspection of facilities at the JSMU. They were accused of creating hurdles in the performance of the statutory duty by the PMDC team.
The petitioners argued that the JPMC is not affiliated with the university or its constituent hospital but they are being asked to facilitate the inspection team in carrying out their function, adding that the notices were served to them a day before the inspections.
They alleged that the PMDC team had carried out inspection on September 25 in disregard of the related laws. The show-cause notice is unconstitutional and based on mala fide intention of the respondents who want to remove the petitioners from their posts illegally, the lawyer alleged, pleading the court to suspend the same.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 1st, 2014.
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