LARKANA: President of Young Doctors Association (YDA), Larkana Chapter, Dr. Fazal Khoso, central leaders Saddam Rind, Dr. Paras Golu, Dr. Sirat Buriro, Dr. Kamran Abbasi and others have alleged while addressing a press conference at a local press club Wednesday that the Sindh government has filled only 385 posts of dental surgeons in the health department during past 14 years, while according to WHO, it is vital to have one dental surgeon for every 10 thousand people.
They said that this year, through the Sindh Public Service Commission, an advertisement has been floated for the recruitment of 50 dental surgeons in Sindh which includes females, disabled and minority quotas and claimed that our rights have been openly and daringly violated. They said that every year 1250 dental surgeons pass out from private and public sector educational medical institutions in Sindh, while 17000 doctors have graduated in the past 14 years for whom there are no opportunities for advancement in the healthcare system.
They further said that the situation of dental doctors in Sindh is very grim who are forced to work at dental clinics run under the ownership of technicians for merely a salary of Rs15000 which is unjust. They said that in Sindh, on the one hand, thousands of children of lower and middle class people pass out as dental surgeons from medical colleges and universities of influential people, but the government does not even have jobs for them and there are no other opportunities under which dental surgeons could be provided employment.
They further claimed that the place of great sorrow and anger is that there are more veterinary doctors in Sindh than dental doctors in the important sector of the health department. They urged the Sindh government to announce the jobs of 2,000 dental doctors every year to increase the seats of post-graduate dental doctors by providing special cadres and to conduct FCPS training in all universities.