Punjab announces over 1000 recruitments for healthcare consultants

LAHORE: In a recent development, the Department of Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education has made a formal request to the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) to recruit a total of 1,092 consultants across 45 specialties.

According to Provincial Health Minister Khawaja Salman Rafique, this recruitment drive would provide a timely remedy to the crisis of staff shortages in public hospitals of Punjab.

The number of posts included in the aforementioned recruitment is 200 for dental surgeons, 96 for senior registrars in anesthesia, 95 in cardiology, 92 in surgery, 60 for obstetrics and gynecology, 53 in medicine, 46 in cardiac surgery, and 44 in orthopedic surgery.

Requests have also been made for 38 senior registrars in pediatric surgery, 33 in pediatric medicine, 32 in neurosurgery, 35 in radiology, and 22 assistant professors (APs) in physiology.

Others in the shortlist include 20 APs for obstetrics, gynecology, biochemistry-15 senior registrars in pediatric hematology, 11 APs in pharmacology, 19 senior registrars in ENT, and 16-in-plastic surgery.

Besides these, the department has requested 10 senior registrars in neurology, 11 in cardiac anesthesia, 18 in psychiatry, and 17 each in ophthalmology and nephrology.

The recruitment drive is expected to improve healthcare delivery and patient care in Punjab’s public hospitals, according to Health Secretary Azmat Mahmood.

The appointment of these medical officers will further improve the quality of healthcare in the province. Coupled with the recent hiring of 3,000 nurses, this recruitment drive would go a long way in mitigation of problems of understaffing in Punjab’s public hospitals.