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07-12-2016, 05:35 AM
PESHAWAR: Almost one and half years after implementation of MTI Act 2015, the Board of Gover**rs (BoG) of the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) Peshawar finally appointed a senior pulmo**logist Prof Dr Mukhtiar Zaman Afridi as first regular medical director of the hospital for three years. He took the charge of his job on Monday.
It took him almost 20 days to accept the contract offered to him after negotiating it with Chairman BoG LRH Prof Dr Nausherwan Burki. Before him, the BoG had appointed Prof Dr Arshad Javaid as Dean PGMI LRH. Interestingly, all the three persons, Prof Dr Nausherwan Burki, chairman BoG, Prof Dr Arshad Javaid, Dean PGMI LRH, and Prof Dr Mukhtiar Zaman Afridi are foreign qualified.
Prof Arshad Javaid was already serving in LRH and was due to retire from active service in August this year. But Prof Mukhtiar Zaman took a risk by saying goodbye to his 19-year long civil service of professor at the Khyber Medical College and Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) where he started his career as assistant professor in 1997 after returning from United Kingdom.
Besides resigning from his government job, Prof Mukhtiar Zaman will need to stop his private clinic at Peshawar’s Dabgari Garden locality.
As per requirement of the MTI Act, the medical director is supposed to operate private clinic within the institution. **w when Prof Mukhtiar Zaman will set up his private clinic within LRH, he will take personal interest in creating conducive environment for dozens of other faculty members who had opted for the institutional-based private practice but could **t start practice as the former hospital administration instead of providing them assistance, created hurdles for them.
Prof Mukhtiar Zaman is the KMC graduate of 1983 batch. He is the pioneer of establishing chest services at KTH and set up a unit in March 1998 there. He along with a**ther doctor had initially set up chest unit at a six-bed room. That small unit has grown into a full-fledged 40 beds chest department **w for postgraduate training.
Prof Mukhtiar Zaman has trained more than 200 Trainees Medical ******rs (TMOs) in general medicine, and seven FCPS in pulmo**logy and 28 MCPS during his 19 years of service in KTH.
All the staff members at the chest department in KTH are FCPS. Right from an associate professor to other staff members of chest department in KTH are his trainees. Besides them, Prof Mukhtiar trained several other district specialists and his trainees are **w providing services in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata.
Prof Mukhtiar Zaman is a Member of Royal College of Physician (MRCP), United Kingdom and has done FCPS and MCPS in pulmo**logy.He is, however, particularly proud of his postgraduation in Strategic Change Management from the University of Central Lancashire, UK. It was the same university that gave him ho**rary fellowship in 2011 for his humanitarian services in Pakistan.
In January 2016, the government promoted him to grade-21 for his meritorious services. To his credit, Prof Mukhtiar Zaman has a long list of achievements. He established the ****** of Research In**vation and Commercialization (ORIC) at the Khyber Medical University (KMU) Peshawar where he was appointed as director, aimed at introducing and enhancing research activities as well as developing research policies and environment.
When reached by phone, Prof Mukhtiar Zaman Afridi said improving patient care is one of his top priorities.“I k**w the work is very challenging but I believe it’s doable. My first and topmost priority is to transfer the benefits of MTI Act to patients. I quit my 19 years of civil service and surrendered my well-established private clinic. I accepted this challenging job to serve the patients and transform LRH into a model and standard health facility of the province,” he explained.
Also, he said he would bridge a gap between the BoG and faculty members to remove mistrust of the hospital employees about health reforms.“I will also devolve auto**my to department level and transfer administrative and financial auto**my to all the departments so they could run their affairs by themselves and make timely decisions, if required for patient care,” said Prof Mukhtiar Zaman.
The newly appointed MD said he would develop patient management and protocols and initiate clinic audit and quality assurance to ensure better services to patients within their own resources.
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It took him almost 20 days to accept the contract offered to him after negotiating it with Chairman BoG LRH Prof Dr Nausherwan Burki. Before him, the BoG had appointed Prof Dr Arshad Javaid as Dean PGMI LRH. Interestingly, all the three persons, Prof Dr Nausherwan Burki, chairman BoG, Prof Dr Arshad Javaid, Dean PGMI LRH, and Prof Dr Mukhtiar Zaman Afridi are foreign qualified.
Prof Arshad Javaid was already serving in LRH and was due to retire from active service in August this year. But Prof Mukhtiar Zaman took a risk by saying goodbye to his 19-year long civil service of professor at the Khyber Medical College and Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) where he started his career as assistant professor in 1997 after returning from United Kingdom.
Besides resigning from his government job, Prof Mukhtiar Zaman will need to stop his private clinic at Peshawar’s Dabgari Garden locality.
As per requirement of the MTI Act, the medical director is supposed to operate private clinic within the institution. **w when Prof Mukhtiar Zaman will set up his private clinic within LRH, he will take personal interest in creating conducive environment for dozens of other faculty members who had opted for the institutional-based private practice but could **t start practice as the former hospital administration instead of providing them assistance, created hurdles for them.
Prof Mukhtiar Zaman is the KMC graduate of 1983 batch. He is the pioneer of establishing chest services at KTH and set up a unit in March 1998 there. He along with a**ther doctor had initially set up chest unit at a six-bed room. That small unit has grown into a full-fledged 40 beds chest department **w for postgraduate training.
Prof Mukhtiar Zaman has trained more than 200 Trainees Medical ******rs (TMOs) in general medicine, and seven FCPS in pulmo**logy and 28 MCPS during his 19 years of service in KTH.
All the staff members at the chest department in KTH are FCPS. Right from an associate professor to other staff members of chest department in KTH are his trainees. Besides them, Prof Mukhtiar trained several other district specialists and his trainees are **w providing services in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata.
Prof Mukhtiar Zaman is a Member of Royal College of Physician (MRCP), United Kingdom and has done FCPS and MCPS in pulmo**logy.He is, however, particularly proud of his postgraduation in Strategic Change Management from the University of Central Lancashire, UK. It was the same university that gave him ho**rary fellowship in 2011 for his humanitarian services in Pakistan.
In January 2016, the government promoted him to grade-21 for his meritorious services. To his credit, Prof Mukhtiar Zaman has a long list of achievements. He established the ****** of Research In**vation and Commercialization (ORIC) at the Khyber Medical University (KMU) Peshawar where he was appointed as director, aimed at introducing and enhancing research activities as well as developing research policies and environment.
When reached by phone, Prof Mukhtiar Zaman Afridi said improving patient care is one of his top priorities.“I k**w the work is very challenging but I believe it’s doable. My first and topmost priority is to transfer the benefits of MTI Act to patients. I quit my 19 years of civil service and surrendered my well-established private clinic. I accepted this challenging job to serve the patients and transform LRH into a model and standard health facility of the province,” he explained.
Also, he said he would bridge a gap between the BoG and faculty members to remove mistrust of the hospital employees about health reforms.“I will also devolve auto**my to department level and transfer administrative and financial auto**my to all the departments so they could run their affairs by themselves and make timely decisions, if required for patient care,” said Prof Mukhtiar Zaman.
The newly appointed MD said he would develop patient management and protocols and initiate clinic audit and quality assurance to ensure better services to patients within their own resources.
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