HYDERABAD, Aug 6: The Civil Hospital, Hyderabad, is facing a shortage of women medico-legal officers as only one woman MLO is working against the strength of six and that too on deputation.
According to sources, a woman MLO is on maternity leave and four others have been admitted to post-graduation courses in the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences.
The Sindh health department had allowed the four woman MLOs to attend the courses, a hospital source said and added that no substitute had been given for them. As a result, only one woman MLO, Dr Sabira Sultana, is working in the hospital and remains on call round the clock.
Sources said that under the court orders, a male MLO was not allowed to check a woman in medico-legal cases regardless of the fact that a woman MLO was present or not. Therefore, male MLOs could not offer any help to their women counterparts in the hospital even if there was a rush of medico-legal cases involving women.
According to sources, the provincial health department had been repeatedly approached for replacement of the women MLOs who had been admitted to post graduation courses but to no avail. The health department did not realise the problem, said a male MLO.
Medico legal cases of sensitive nature from different parts of Sindh are referred to the Civil Hospital Hyderabad. This is why woman MLOs from the Paretabad, Bhitai and Jamshoro government hospitals are sent to the CHH to take care of women's medico-legal cases. A post of additional police surgeon was also lying vacant in the Civil Hospital, sources said.
BAIL GRANTED: The special judge of the Anti-Corruption (central), Lal Mohammad Khehro, has granted the bail to two officials of the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company in a fraud case.
Former divisional accounts officer Ikhtiarul Hasan Jafri and the then commercial assistant, Qamaruddin Sheikh, were granted bail in the sum of Rs100,000 each here on Thursday for alleged embezzlement of Rs6.3 million.
Advocates Qurban Ali Chohan and Noorul Haq Qureshi represented Mr Jafri while advocate Allah Bachayo Soomro appeared on behalf of Mr Sheikh. The said case was lodged last month following two separate inquiries conducted by the postal and Hesco authorities in which the applicants were found guilty of having failed to maintain proper record of money remitted by power consumers.
Mr Jafri's counsels argued that no amount of cash was entrusted to him, therefore, section 409 was not applicable to him and added that other sections also did not fall in the prohibitory clause.
The counsels maintained that the findings were against the third accused, Ghulam Nabi Soomro, who had already been dismissed from service following the departmental action.
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