Monitoring desk
\nKHAR
\nHealth Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa suspended Bajaur Agency Surgeon for ill-treatment of female polio workers after Health Minister Dr Hasham Inamullah took notice.
\nEarlier, deputy commissioner has issued show cause notice to him and asked the surgeon to explain his ill-treatment of women and submit a reply within three days.
\nThe pictures sparked outrage among locals against the surgeon with leaving scathing comments on the post showing the women.
\nSocial media users criticised the surgeon for his inappropriate treatment of women. Following outrage on social media, Deputy Commissioner Usman Mehsud took notice and asked the health officer to explain his behavior.
\nTalking to reporters, the surgeon said that a meeting of polio workers was convened wherein all workers including male and females had participated.
\nHe said he briefed the participants (women) regarding the upcoming polio drive wherein women were sitting outside in lawn after which they went inside hall. However the doctor has not given any response to the show cause notice.
\nThe meeting was convened after two children were test polio positive in different areas of Bajaur district few days ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Monitoring desk KHAR Health Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa suspended Bajaur Agency Surgeon for ill-treatment of female polio workers after Health Minister Dr Hasham Inamullah took notice. Earlier, deputy commissioner has issued show cause notice to him and asked the surgeon to explain his ill-treatment of women and submit a reply within three days. The pictures sparked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n