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The teaching hospitals had the services of consultants, doctors, nurses, paramedics and other staff prior to the implementation of MTIRA. Photo courtesy Creative Commons/File
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has started giving incentives to the doctors recruited under Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Act, 2015 to strengthen institution-based practice in the teaching hospitals.
The teaching hospitals had the services of consultants, doctors, nurses, paramedics and other staff prior to the implementation of MTIRA. They would work under the provincial government.
Following the extension of the new law to teaching hospitals, the staff was asked to opt for becoming employee of the respective medical teaching institution but most of them preferred to stay as civil servants under the provincial government.
PESHAWAR: The authorities is conducting a review of medical teaching institutions to ascertain the factors hampering the reforms process in health sector and take strict measures to trickle down the benefits of the new law to the patients, according to sources.
“The policy board is conducting a complete and continuing review regarding the medical teaching institutions after which strict actions will be taken against those creating hurdles to the implementation of the reforms.
“Additionally, MTIs would be helped to bring out reforms through support from high level,” a senior official associated with the enforcement of Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Act (MTIRA), 2015 told Dawn.