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SWABI: The Swabi district well being division on Saturday performed an inquiry in opposition to the Swabi-based physician for sharing a photograph on social media whereas carrying a plastic bag as a face masks and analyzing a affected person.
A picture of Dr Amir Mustafa of the Yar Hussain Class-D hospital whereas analyzing sufferers carrying a plastic bag as a face masks made rounds on the microblogging community Twitter. The viral {photograph} got here within the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, which has created a scarcity of Private Protecting Tools (PPE) within the province; leaving healthcare officers engaged on the frontlines on the highest danger of an infection.
Following the social media outcry questioning state of healthcare within the province, the provincial well being division directed the Swabi District Well being Officer (DHO) Kaleemullah Khan to conduct an inquiry into the incident.
DHO Kaleemullah in his inquiry report has really useful strict disciplinary motion in opposition to Dr Amir Khan for allegedly demoralising healthcare workers and defaming the provincial well being division.
A replica of the inquiry report which is offered with The Categorical Tribune stated that Dr Amir carried out his responsibility within the morning shift however intentionally attended the hospital’s night shift for taking photos and recording video and sharing it on social media. The individual proven within the image shouldn’t be an precise affected person however a close-by drugstore proprietor who was referred to as by the physician to fake as a affected person, the report claimed.
The report additional claimed that the well being division had already provided 300 gloves and 150 face masks to the Yar Hussain Class-D Hospital on March 24 this yr.
The inquiry report additionally claimed that Dr Amir has confessed to have intentionally finished this act to get media consideration and in addition to power the well being division for his switch as a medical specialist.
The report additionally alleged that efficiency of the medical officer in query was poor within the current polio campaigns.
Nonetheless, talking to The Categorical Tribune a number of staff of Yar Hussain Class-D Hospital who requested to not be named rejected the fees framed in opposition to Dr Ami Mustafa. They stated DHO Kaleemullah had been pressurising Dr Amir Mustafa to simply accept the fees or face severe penalties.
Dr Amir has carried out in probably the most delicate areas the place a police official was attacked throughout anti-polio campaigns, they added
A supply on the hospital instructed that every one the face masks and gloves had been present on the day after the picture went viral on social media. The supply additionally rejected the declare that the affected person proven within the image was not precise affected person. The aim of the image was to attract consideration of the authorities for provision of PPE and never for switch as a medical specialist, the supply added.
Talking solely to The Categorical Tribune on March 26, Amir Khan, who holds a primary medical diploma from Kohat Medical Faculty and a specialty from England, had shared that his act was a type of protest in opposition to the dearth of medical services in his hometown of Swabi
“As taxpayers, it is our right to be provided with all necessary medical safety equipment by the government but we are to fend for ourselves in this difficult time which is why I have been compelled to wear a polybag on face to register my protest,” he added.
Printed in The Categorical Tribune, March 29th, 2020.
