The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Lahore has expressed grave concern and strong resentment over the removal of principals of various medical colleges and medical superintendents (MSs) of government hospitals, calling the move unjustified and damaging to the medical profession, it was reported on Tuesday.
In a press statement, PMA Lahore President Dr Shahid Malik said it was unacceptable and incomprehensible to shift the blame for the poor and failed performance of the Chief Minister’s Inspection Teams onto hospital administrations and doctors.
He strongly objected to the deployment of irrelevant, non-doctor personnel and graduates of general universities in teams tasked with monitoring government hospitals.
“These individuals have no understanding of medicine procurement, drug availability, local purchase mechanisms, or even the basic hospital administrative system,” Dr Malik lamented, adding that decisions based on the inaccurate, superficial, and unprofessional reports of inexperienced teams amounted to an insult to the medical profession.
The PMA Lahore also rejected holding hospital administrations responsible for issues such as the presence of stray dogs in hospital premises, terming it beyond the mandate of hospital management.
Dr Malik said stray dogs were not the responsibility of any single hospital or its principal, but rather a district-level administrative and municipal issue, which falls under the jurisdiction of the assistant commissioner and deputy commissioner, not doctors.
The association termed the removal of the principal of Gujranwala Medical College by the Punjab Health Department as a highly condemnable and unacceptable action.
PMA Lahore demanded that the Chief Minister of Punjab take immediate action against inspection teams that were allegedly submitting misleading reports and unfairly holding doctors accountable for broader administrative failures.
