KARACHI: National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) has removed surgeon, Dr. Pervaiz Chaudhry, from the health institute citing the culmination of his contract. The NICVD spokesman said that Dr. Pervaiz Chaudhry’s contract expired therefore Dr. Asad Bilal Awan who is the senior-most surgeon in the department has been given the acting charge of the head of the Cardiac Surgery. However, Dr. Pervaiz Chaudhry denied the claims made by the NICVD spokesman and said that his contract was going to expire on 31 December 2022. “I was not given any notice regarding the culmination of my contract with the NICVD,” said the surgeon, who has been awarded Sitara-e-Pakistan for his services in the medical field. It is pertinent to mention here that operations at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) across Sindh were postponed for a week after another doctor and a score of staff tested positive for the COVID-19 on Nov. 16.
