The Health and Population Department of the Government of Punjab is hiring medical officers, women medical officers and registered nurses for government hospitals in Sheikhupura and Lahore. The recruitment is being run under the CM Punjab Initiatives with a special pay package, and applications must be submitted online by 11:59pm on Thursday, 26 November 2026.

Medical officer and women medical officer posts are based at DHQ Hospital Sheikhupura and cover eight specialties: general surgery, general medicine, paediatrics, gynaecology and obstetrics, radiology, orthopaedics, anaesthesia and neurosurgery. Registered nurse posts are available at four tehsil headquarters hospitals in Lahore. The advertisement does not state a total number of vacancies and does not name the four Lahore hospitals individually.

Applicants for the medical officer posts must hold an MBBS degree and valid Pakistan Medical and Dental Council registration, with postgraduate training or experience as required for the specialty. Postgraduate qualifications named in the advertisement include FCPS, MS, MD or a diploma, or five years of experience. Registered nurse applicants must hold a recognised nursing qualification.

Applications are accepted only online through the department's official recruitment portal at hspp.pshealthpunjab.gov.pk. No other method of application is offered for this round, and the portal will stop accepting submissions at midnight on 26 November. A helpline, 1033, is available for assistance with applications.

The department is filling these posts to strengthen staffing at DHQ Hospital Sheikhupura, the main secondary-care referral hospital for the district, and at tehsil-level hospitals in Lahore. Merit and regional quotas apply to the selection, as set out in the advertisement.

Candidates should read the full advertisement on the official portal before applying, and check that their qualifications, registration and experience match the post they choose. This is a fresh advertisement under the same initiative; an earlier round advertised under a different reference closed on 25 October 2026, so applicants should rely only on the current advertisement and its 26 November deadline.

The special pay package is the department's way of attracting doctors and nurses to district and tehsil hospitals, where specialist cover is often thinner than in the big teaching hospitals of Lahore. A district headquarters hospital is the main referral centre for its district, handling surgery, medicine, paediatrics and obstetrics for patients referred up from basic health units and rural health centres, while tehsil headquarters hospitals provide the next level of care closer to where people live.

Because applications are online only, candidates should have their documents ready before they start the form on the portal: degree and registration certificates, experience certificates where the specialty requires them, a national identity card and a recent photograph. The advertisement does not state an application fee, and no fee figure should be assumed. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, so applicants should keep the contact details they enter on the form up to date and watch for messages from the department after the closing date.