Doctors' future uncertain despite qualifying in SPSC exams

Doctors qualified the Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC)exams are uncertain about their future as they have been waiting for their appointments for the last five months, learned Business Recorder on Friday. Sources said that Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) had announced results of some sixty resident male medical officers (BPS-17) on 7th of April 2011.
The rules suggested posting and appointments of the said qualified doctors should be made within a span of one month through concerned department. They said Sindh health department had received the result summary from commission in the early days of May and since then they have not so far been issued the appointment letters. It is worth mentioning here that Sindh province is facing serious health issues especially acute scarcity of doctors in various facilities of provincial districts.
Health experts feared that prevalence dengue in the country especially after floods and heavy rain in Badin and different district of Sindh may prove horrific for the flood-stricken people if this summary to appoint house officers gets further delayed.
The appointments should be made in the new budget after 30th June but after the tendering resignations of MQM led ministers it had been pending. There is no provincial health minister since 27th June after the resignation of the then Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed besides new health minister could not be appointed yet.
Now nearly five months are about to complete and all doctors who have qualified the commission exam are uncertain about their future and appointment. Sixty doctors are to be appointed to all urban and rural areas of Sindh province so it could be figure out that how much impact a common man is facing regarding delay of appointments. Beside this, a few professors' appointments are still pending as well.
Doctors' representative bodies including Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) demanded immediate issuance of appointment letters to Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) qualified doctors in order to remove prevailing uncertainty among them.