{"id":44812,"date":"2024-08-13T12:35:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=44812"},"modified":"2024-08-13T12:36:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:36:59","slug":"punjab-govt-forces-health-secretary-on-leave-amid-mpas-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/punjab-govt-forces-health-secretary-on-leave-amid-mpas-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab govt forces Health Secretary on leave amid MPA complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab government has put <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/cm-punjab-constitutes-investigation-committee-in-sania-zehra-murder-case\/\">Health Secretary Ali Jan<\/a> on forced leave following a privilege motion filed by treasury members in the Punjab Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>This move came in response to MPAs&#8217; dissatisfaction with his performance and their calls for improved monitoring of hospitals across the province.<\/p>\n<p>Azmat Mahmood has been appointed as the new<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sindh-govt-to-impose-sales-tax-on-education-health-services-and-doctors\/\"> Secretary of the Specialized Healthcare Department,<\/a> while Nadia Saqib has been named Secretary of the Primary Healthcare Department.<\/p>\n<p>Sources reveal that MPAs had made several recommendations to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/cm-gandapur-announces-to-launch-education-card-details-inside\/\">Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz<\/a> to enhance hospital oversight and lodged complaints against Ali Jan.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, they alleged that he advised hospital management to ignore their suggestions and instructed them to keep a record of the recommendations, escalating tensions between him and the lawmakers. The MPAs believe that Ali Jan violated the chief minister&#8217;s directives.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz recently assigned MPAs the responsibility of monitoring hospital performance, which further strained relations with the health secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Jan, who has served as health secretary for the past 18 months under the caretaker government and previously during former Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif&#8217;s tenure, has expressed a desire to return to the development sector, citing his decade-long experience in government and development work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab government has put Health Secretary Ali Jan on forced leave following a privilege motion filed by treasury members in the Punjab Assembly. This move came in response to MPAs&#8217; dissatisfaction with his performance and their calls for improved monitoring of hospitals across the province. Azmat Mahmood has been appointed as the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":44817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[960,12936,20385],"class_list":["post-44812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-pakistan","tag-punjab-assembly","tag-cm-maryam-nawaz","tag-health-secretary-ali-jan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44819,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44812\/revisions\/44819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}