Former PKLI director 'devastated and hurt' after finding out name put on ECL.

The former medical director of the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute (PKLI), Dr Amer Yar Khan, said he was totally devastated, humiliated and frustrated" after finding out his name had been put on the Exit Control List (ECL) by the interior ministry.So I'm at the airport right now going to the USA to attend the American College of Physicians meeting and they are telling me at immigration that I can't go because I'm on the ECL" the recently resigned former PKLI director wrote in facebook post.

Dr Khan had only a few days ago made public his resignation from the PKLI over the PKLI Act 2019, which he claims completely strips the institution of any autonomy, thus making it impossible for it to function as a modern, state-of-the art medical institution.The PKLI Act 2019 practically gives complete control of the institution to a bloated government bureaucracy which has no clue how to run modern hospitals, while dumps responsibility on an executive which is not given the authority which would enable delivery" he said in an earlier facebook post he made when he made his resignation public.

What has happened at PKLI should be a case study for why Pakistan could not succeed like some other...

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