10,000 doctors to be selected for coronavirus-specific duties.

LAHORE -- The second sitting of the Punjab Assembly was held here on Monday with panel of chairman Mian Muhammad Shafi in the chair.

Law Minister Muhammad Basharat Raja moved two bills in the house and both were passed with a majority vote. These were the Punjab Village Panchayats and Neighbourhood Councils (Amendment) Bill and the Code of Civil Procedure (Punjab Amendment) bill 2020.

Earlier during the Question Hour, Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid criticised the former PML-N government for what she said not promoting medical professionals in the health departments during its 10-year rule.

She asked the former health minister sitting in the house why no doctor was promoted from BPS-19 to BPS-20 during his party's 10-year rule.

Now, she said, promotions of doctors were being made every fortnight.

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Responding to a question, she said the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) has so far interviewed 2,000 male and female doctors while 10,000 medics would be selected for duties during the coronavirus pandemic.

To another question, she informed the house that recruitments for the Children Hospital were being done through the PPSC.

PTI lawmaker Ahmed Shah Khagha suggested during general discussion on the forthcoming budget and the Covid-19 pandemic that laws should be...