SUKKUR, Oct 5: About 400 specialist doctors will resign from their posts if the Sindh chief secretary does not sign a summary regarding their promotion in one month.

This was said by Specialist Doctors Forum chairman Dr Aijaz Gajani while talking to journalists here on Sunday.

Dr Gajani said 400 specialist doctors were serving in Sindh out of whom more than 350 were performing their duties in district taluka hospitals in the interior of Sindh.

He said resentment had prevailed in doctors as no doctor had been promoted for the last seven years. He regretted that promotions were awarded in teaching and general cadres while specialist doctors were being ignored.

He said due to the indifferent attitude of the government, many doctors had taken retirement from the government service prior to their superannuating age.

The SDF chairman demanded that the government should change its attitude and sanction promotion of specialists doctors.

He said three months back, the adviser to the Sindh chief minister on health, Noman Sehgal, assured the doctors that their problems would be resolved in a month and a summary for the purpose was ready and lying with the secretary for health, Hashim Memon, for approval.

SMUGGLED OIL RECOVERED: The Custom Intelligence, Jacobabad, on Saturday raided a truck on the National Highway and recovered 4,200 smuggled Mobil oil cans from it.

Custom officials said after receiving information they intercepted the Peshawar-bound truck (LY-1682), coming from Quetta, and recovered the oil cans worth Rs2.1 million.

Driver Jan Ali Pathan was arrested and the truck was impounded.

POLICE STATIONS: The construction work of three police stations and 25 police posts on the Sindh-Balochistan border has been started.

The Jacobabad DPO, Din Mohammad Baloch, said this while talking to journalists on Saturday.