Strict measures to ensure attendance
of medical staff, instructions to create a transparent attendance system.
All staff deployed in government hospitals and health centers should ensure their attendance at all times. Member Advisory Council for Health Lt. Gen. (retd) Nigar Johar
Peshawar:(Special Correspondent) According to Global Times News Agency Europe, a meeting of the Independent Monitoring Unit (IMU) was held under the chairmanship of Member Advisory Council for Health, Lt. Gen. (retd) Nigar Johar. In which the participants reiterated the commitment that all necessary steps will be taken to ensure discipline, transparency and accountability in the health sector, so that better and timely treatment facilities can be provided to the public. The meeting discussed in detail the performance of health facilities, attendance of medical staff and making the monitoring system effective. Addressing the meeting, Member Advisory Council for Health said that all staff deployed in government hospitals and health centers should ensure their attendance at all times. she said that provision of quality medical facilities to the public is possible only when all the staff fulfill their responsibilities on time and in full, and absence from duty is not acceptable in any case.
The meeting paid special attention to the health facilities of backward and rural areas. The Member Advisory Council for Health directed that 95 percent attendance of staff should be made mandatory in these areas so that distant residents do not have to travel to cities for treatment and they can get timely medical facilities in their own area. She further said that a regular and effective mechanism should be formed for attendance, through which accurate and transparent monitoring of staff attendance could be possible.she directed that the attendance record of all health facilities including District Headquarters (DHQ) and Tehsil Headquarters (BHQ) hospitals should be linked with the Independent Monitoring Unit, so that the attendance status of each hospital could be clearly revealed and the performance could be properly assessed. She said that centralized monitoring of records would strengthen the accountability process, make it easier to identify absenteeism, and enable timely action.