LAHORE: The Punjab government has removed the medical superintendents (MSs) of nine teaching hospitals over a short span of two weeks, sparking concerns over administrative stability in major health facilities. The decision followed reports of alleged negligence, incompetence, and financial irregularities in several institutions.
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Those removed include heads of Children’s Hospital Multan, Gujranwala Teaching Hospital, Sahiwal Teaching Hospital, Holy Family Hospital Rawalpindi, Sheikh Zayed Hospital Rahim Yar Khan, and Allama Iqbal Teaching Hospital DG Khan, among others. The Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital in Gujrat saw its MS suspended under the PEEDA Act 2006 for alleged inefficiency and misconduct.
The government maintained that the MSs were transferred on administrative grounds. However, sources said the moves were prompted by findings from the Chief Minister’s Inspection Team (CMIT), which reportedly flagged failures in ensuring medicine supplies, financial irregularities, and general administrative negligence.
Officials noted that the abrupt changes have caused turmoil within hospital administrations, raising questions about the effectiveness of the existing selection and monitoring processes. A search committee had recommended these MSs earlier, and their rapid removal has sparked debate over governance strategies and institutional stability.
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Medical experts and senior officials warned that repeated reshuffling could undermine the efficiency of hospitals already facing resource constraints. They emphasized the need for structural reforms, rationalised patient referral systems, and longer tenures for hospital administrators to ensure meaningful improvements.
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Pakistan Medical Association Lahore President Prof Dr Shahid Malik criticized the government, describing the removals as humiliating for medical professionals and questioning the CMIT’s competence. He said that action against hospital heads should be coupled with wider systemic reforms rather than targeting individual administrators.