{"id":80694,"date":"2025-07-17T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=80694"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:00:15","slug":"punjab-bans-doctors-from-travelling-abroad-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/punjab-bans-doctors-from-travelling-abroad-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab bans doctors from travelling abroad: Here&#8217;s why!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The provincial government of Punjab has barred the heads of all government hospitals from granting leave to doctors willing to travel abroad.<\/p>\n<p>According to a notification issued by the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/punjab-govt-announces-over-2000-jobs-in-health-department\/\">Punjab Health Department<\/a>, all such requests will now require prior approval from the Chief Minister.<\/p>\n<p>According to the new policy, doctors serving in government hospitals will have to submit their leave requests at least a month in advance if they want to travel abroad. The final decision on such requests will be taken by the Chief Minister alone.<\/p>\n<p>The notification emphasizes that no hospital administrator, medical superintendent, or principal will be allowed to approve or forward such leave requests without going through proper channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The provincial government of Punjab has barred the heads of all government hospitals from granting leave to doctors willing to travel abroad. According to a notification issued by the Punjab Health Department, all such requests will now require prior approval from the Chief Minister. According to the new policy, doctors serving in government hospitals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1156],"class_list":["post-80694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-punjab-health-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80694","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80695,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80694\/revisions\/80695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}