| Appointment of male nursing superintendent.. |
| Tuesday, 09 September 2008 | |
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The appointment of a junior male nurse as the acting nursing superintendent (ANS) at Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) has created resentment among senior nurses who feel that they have been deprived of legitimate expectations of elevation to this post. They have raised serious questions about it as this is the first time that a male nurse has been appointed as the head of nurses. A senior nurse said that there are a total of 500 nurses at the JPMC. Out of these, 95 nurses are senior while around 35 are head nurses who have an experience of 25 years but all these have been ignored by the hospital administration due to unknown reasons. According to rules, only an ANS can be elevated to the post of a nursing superintendent (NS). The senior nurse said that there are three ways for the appointment of an NS. One is through direct promotion, for which one has to apply. The other is when the Federal Public Service Commission appoints the NS. Thirdly, the executive director JPMC issues an order for the post of an ANS, asking eligible candidates to apply for the post. The Chief nursing superintendent (CNS) will then give remarks on the applications of possible candidates for the post of the ANS keeping in view the three year ACR (annual confidential report). However, allegedly this process has not been followed in this particular case. Another senior nurse said that the new male ANS was appointed at a 16-grade at the casualty department and had an experience of eight years only. The JPMC sources said that the ANS in question got an admission in B.Sc.N (B.Sc nurse course) in Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) without seeking official permission and allegedly did not attend his duty for two years. He is still a student of the DUHS. It is mandatory that the nursing superintendent should have remained head nurse but he has worked as a junior nurse only. The nurses protested, seeking attention of the JPMC administration towards their perceived legitimate grievances. However, the JPMC sources said that the male superintendent enjoyed the political backing of certain elements. The hospital administration tried to pacify the protesting nurses by saying that they will only deal with male nurses and those female nurses who are under training for one year and are in grade-four, but senior nurses questioned this possibility. A senior nurse said that after the protest, they were threatened of consequences by certain elements. Meanwhile, the sources said that irregularities have been committed in the admission for B.Sc nursing and Masters of nursing course at the nursing college of the JPMC. The sources said that the principal who has been given extension on verbal orders was only entitled to give admission to around 20 nurses on merit and according to the rules; however, she went on to give admissions to around 66 nurses in B.Sc. The JPMC’s executive director, Dr Shoaib Mir said that he has set up a committee led by senior professor, Dr Musarrat Hussain and comprising another senior doctor Dr Ghulam Mahboob to hold an inquiry into the alleged irregularities in the admissions. The principal is cited to have said that she was entitled to give admission on merit and the rules. On the other hand, the Federal Health Ministry is creating 18 posts of ANS (grade -17), NS (grade-18) and CNS (grade-20). Earlier, the post of CNS was of grade-19 but it will be promoted to grade-20. A senior nurse said that the ministry had issued a letter in this regard but so far, the process has not been initiated. Deputy-director nurses in offing By our correspondent Karachi The Ministry of health (MoH) is contemplating to create a new post of deputy-director nurses at the federal-run Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC), sources privy to this development told The News on Thursday. The sources said that for the post of deputy-director, certain qualities were needed. An MBBS along with a Masters in public health, were the key requirements. Apart from these, the age factor will also be taken into account. The sources said that there are three deputy directors at the hospital at present. They are deputy-director medicine, regular and executive deputy director respectively apart from executive director and joint director. There is no one at the post of deputy-director nurses at the moment. Sources say that the MoH has insisted the hospital administration to accommodate a certain male nurse on this new post presumably because he enjoyed political backing by certain elements. The sources said that the prospect candidate for the yet-to-be-created new post of deputy-director nurses is a junior employee and too young to be appointed at this post. The administration’s say By our correspondent Karachi JPMC’s executive director, Dr Shoaib Mir said that it was an administrative decision by him to appoint a 16 grade nurse as an acting nursing superintendent (ANS) in interest of administrative affairs for which he was entitled to do so. He said that a major component of nurses at the JPMC were male who were more comfortable with a male ANS who could specifically deal with their matters. He admitted that one group of nurses is against him but so far he has not received any complaint in writing. “If they give anything in written, I would give it due consideration,” he said, adding that so far he has not been provided any “tangible reason” for withdrawing the decision. “It was a simple administration issue which has been blown out of proportion,” Dr Mir added. |
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