PESHAWAR: The health department has expressed concern over the employees’ failure to comply with its instructions regarding the submission of details regarding the use of official vehicles and has reminded them to do so by the end of the month, failing which, such vehicles will be considered illegal.
The department has informed all relevant officials in a letter that they will not receive reimbursement from the government for the costs of gasoline, oil lubricant (POL), and maintenance and repair, and that the excise and taxation department will be asked to retrieve any such vehicles that are not listed in the record.
The letter was sent to the director-generals of health services and drugs, as well as to all project directors, district health officers, medical superintendents of district and tehsil headquarters hospitals, rural health centers, and the heads of the Pakistan Institute of Prosthetic and Orthotic Sciences (PEPOS), Paraplegic Centre, Health Care Commission, and Health Foundation. They have been given the directive to enter the vehicle data into the HRMIS dash board by October 31 or face legal action.
The department had requested the data in July of this year, according to the letter titled “details of all vehicles,” but only 43 vehicles had been registered as of yet.
The letter states that vehicles that are not listed by October 31 will be considered illegal. It also states that a recent meeting, chaired by the adviser to the chief minister on health, had taken exception to the non-compliance with the previous directives in this regard. According to the report, the department had given the deputy director of procurement and deputy director of coordination at the director-general of health services the responsibility of obtaining specifics regarding each kind of vehicle that had been purchased on the regular side, on the project side, on the authority side, and on the foundation side, or that had been donated to the department.
