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‘PM kept in dark about sinister aspects of MTI Ordinance’
Islamabad
December 18, 2020
Islamabad : How can Prime Minister Imran Khan extend assurances to the effect that the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) is not being privatised when the Medical Teaching Institutions (MTI) Ordinance clearly states that the hospital will become a corporate entity to be managed by a Board of Governors (BoG)? What else is privatisation?
The above questions, and many more pertaining to the future status of PIMS and its employees, were raised by the leadership of the Federal Grand Health Alliance (FGHA) at a press conference convened on the 18th day of their ongoing strike against the MTI legislation here on Thursday.
GHA plans response to PM’s remarks
Islamabad
December 17, 2020
Islamabad : The Federal Grand Health Alliance (FGHA) has called a press briefing today (Wednesday) in the grounds of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) to respond to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement about why hospital reforms are so direly needed to bring about an improvement in the standard of medical care for the rich and poor alike.
“We will get the Medical Teaching Institutions (MTI) Ordinance reverted by forging ahead with unity,” the Chairman of FGHA Dr. Asfandyar Khan reiterated, inviting all print and electronic media to reach the PIMS grounds at 11 a.m. for a response to the PM’s statement.
PM to open Peshawar Institute of Cardiology today
National
December 16, 2020
PESHAWAR: It’s a dream come true for the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the long-delayed Peshawar Institute of Cardiology (PIC) is ready and Prime Minister Imran Khan will formally open it for patients today.
“PIC is ready and Prime Minister Imran Khan is coming to Peshawar today to inaugurate it,” Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra told The News on Tuesday.
Former chief secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mohammad Azam Khan and his successor Dr Kazim Niaz played a key role in the establishment of PIC by arranging funds and procuring equipment.
Shahina Maqbool
Islamabad Employees of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) had a second round of parleys with the PM’s Special Adviser Ali Awan here Tuesday to communicate their key demands with reference to the status of PIMS and protection of their civil servant rights, both of which stand threatened on account of the Medical Teaching Institutions (MTI) Ordinance. “We have demanded that PIMS should continue to remain under Schedule III, and that our status as civil servants should remain unchanged. A civil servant who does not opt for MTI should remain civil servant of an attached department of the federal government. We should be entitled to all perks and privileges of the federal government, in particular promotions, pensions, gratuity, housing, monetization, health facilities and other privileges declared by the federal government from time to time,” the Grand Health Alliance’s (GHA) Chairman Dr. Asfandyar stated while talking to his scribe. Dr. Asfandyar