Article Reviews by Raheel Awan

Health Dept. Forwards Candidates list to SPSC.
July 24, 2008 on Dawn

This article is about the demand and supply of medical doctors in not only Sindh but Pakistan as a whole. The list of the needs for medical practitioners was passed on to SPSC (Sindh Public Service Commission) by the health department of Sindh. In a nutshell, there was a supply of 2,253 candidates and a supply of 591 medical officers, 250 for women and 329 for women, leaving vacancy of 100 seats for women because 150 passed the test. Moreover, 75 dental surgeons are needed; most of these seats are on a contract basis but instructions were set for a more regular basis.
Firstly, there is more of a proportion of male doctors to female nurses, which should be a reverse situation, because in general, doctors are those who give advice and do operations on their patients. Doctors need the assistance of nurses as much as possible because of the overflow of patients who need urgent medical assistance and which means it is a life and death situation!

Secondly, the article doesn’t state if those doctors who got seated are the better half of those who can barely have enough money to pay for their lifestyle.
Lastly, giving doctors job’s on a contract basis has the potential for inexperience overall because the more they move around from job to job gives them EXPERIENCE; The experience of assisting as many patients as efficiently as possible.