DHO Upper Chitral Jobs 2026 — 20 Clinical Technician (BPS-12) Posts at Cat-D Hospital Booni via ETEA, Apply by 5 November

Office of the District Health Officer, Upper Chitral — Cat-D Hospital Booni, Health Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — Cat-D Hospital Booni, District Upper Chitral

By Muhammad Younus, Editor Posted: 16 Oct 2026 Updated: 29 Oct 2026 12 min read

The District Health Office of Upper Chitral has announced 20 Clinical Technician posts in BPS-12 for the Category-D Hospital at Booni, recruited through the Educational Testing and Evaluation Agency (ETEA) under Project 871. The advertisement carries the reference INF(P)5204/26, was posted on 16 October 2026, and closes on 5 November 2026. The 20 seats are spread across six paramedical disciplines: Surgical 7, Pharmacy 4, Anaesthesia 3, Pathology 3, Radiology 2 and Ophthalmology 1.

Every discipline carries the same entry bar: Matric Science in second division plus a two-year diploma in that discipline from the Faculty of Paramedics and Allied Health Sciences of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The age limit is 18 to 32 years, with relaxation under government rules, and only candidates holding the domicile of District Upper Chitral can apply. The ETEA screening test carries a minimum pass mark of 50 percent, and only candidates scoring 50 percent or above are considered for interview. Applications are submitted separately for each discipline, each with its own fee, through the ETEA portal.

About Office of the District Health Officer, Upper Chitral — Cat-D Hospital Booni, Health Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

The District Health Office of Upper Chitral is the district arm of the Health Department of the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, responsible for public healthcare delivery across one of the province's most mountainous and scattered districts. Upper Chitral was carved out as its own district in the north of the province, and its population lives in high valleys where the district headquarters hospital and the category-D hospital at Booni are the main referral points for basic and secondary care. In such a district, paramedical staff are not back-office support: the clinical technician is often the person who keeps the operation theatre, the laboratory, the pharmacy or the X-ray room running on a given day.

The Category-D Hospital at Booni is the district's secondary-care facility, serving Booni town and the surrounding valleys. A category-D hospital in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provides inpatient care, emergency cover, maternal and child services, a laboratory, a pharmacy and basic surgical and diagnostic services, and it depends on diploma-holding technicians for every one of those functions. That is why this advertisement recruits by discipline rather than as a single generic post: a surgical technician, a pharmacy technician and a radiology technician each hold a different diploma and work in a different room of the same hospital, and the advertisement's seat counts follow the hospital's actual staffing gaps, with surgery taking the largest share at seven seats.

Vacant Positions — Post-Wise Details

Twenty seats are open, all Clinical Technicians in BPS-12, all at the same hospital, split across six disciplines. The table below gives each discipline with its seat count and the diploma it requires; the qualification and age conditions are the same for all six unless a note says otherwise.

• Clinical Technician (Surgical): The largest group in the advertisement. Surgical technicians support operation-theatre work at Cat-D Hospital Booni, including preparing theatre lists, instruments and post-operative care routines.
• Clinical Technician (Pharmacy): Pharmacy technicians run the hospital dispensary: receiving, storing, issuing and recording medicines, and keeping prescription records accurate and orderly.
• Clinical Technician (Anaesthesia): Anaesthesia technicians keep the operation theatre safe: checking anaesthesia equipment, assisting the anaesthetist and monitoring patients through procedures.
• Clinical Technician (Pathology): Pathology technicians staff the hospital laboratory: collecting and testing samples, running routine investigations and reporting results to the treating doctors.
• Clinical Technician (Radiology): Radiology technicians operate X-ray and imaging equipment, position patients correctly, protect patients and staff from unnecessary exposure, and maintain imaging records.
• Clinical Technician (Ophthalmology): The single ophthalmology seat supports eye care at the hospital: vision testing, assisting the eye specialist and maintaining ophthalmic instruments and records.

Eligibility Criteria — Who Can Apply

• Matric Science passed in second division.
• A two-year diploma in the discipline applied for, from the Faculty of Paramedics and Allied Health Sciences, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (FPAHS).
• Domicile of District Upper Chitral only; candidates domiciled elsewhere do not qualify.
• Age between 18 and 32 years, with relaxation as per government rules.
• A minimum of 50 percent marks in the ETEA screening test; below 50 percent, a candidate is not considered for interview.
• A 10 percent female quota is reported in the post-wise notices.
• Each discipline needs a separate application with a separate fee; one application does not cover two disciplines.
• Foreign degrees, where claimed, need HEC equivalence.
• Documents are not sent to ETEA with the application; copies are collected from candidates who qualify the screening test, when the appointing authority asks for them.

Eligibility for the Booni posts turns on three conditions, and all three must be met together. The first is education, and it is discipline-specific: Matric Science in second division plus a two-year diploma from the Faculty of Paramedics and Allied Health Sciences of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in exactly the discipline applied for. A diploma in a different discipline does not qualify a candidate for another discipline's seats, and a general science qualification without the FPAHS diploma does not meet the advertisement. Applicants who hold diplomas from other provinces' faculties should check their equivalence position before applying, because the advertisement names the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa faculty.

The second condition is domicile, and it is absolute: only candidates holding the domicile of District Upper Chitral can apply. This is a district-cadre recruitment for the district's own hospital, and the post-wise notices are explicit that applicants from other districts do not qualify, even if they hold the right diploma. The third condition is the test threshold. The ETEA screening test for this project carries a minimum pass mark of 50 percent, and only candidates scoring 50 percent or above are considered for interview; a lower score ends the application regardless of the diploma. The age limit is 18 to 32 years with relaxation as per government rules, and the post-wise notices report a 10 percent female quota. One practical point matters for applicants who qualify in two disciplines: each discipline needs a separate application with a separate fee, so a candidate applying for two disciplines must complete the whole process, and pay, twice.

Salary & Benefits

The advertisement prints no monthly salary figure, so this article gives no rupee amount and no estimate. What is certain is the grade: Clinical Technician in BPS-12 of the provincial government pay structure. In the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government's pay system, a BPS-12 post carries the basic pay scale of that grade together with the allowances the provincial government notifies for the grade and station, and pay rises with the annual increments and revisions that apply to the scale. Because the advertisement does not print a figure, any website or social media post quoting an exact monthly salary for these 20 posts is adding information the advertisement does not contain. The honest comparison is with other BPS-12 paramedical posts in the province, which carry the same scale and allowance structure, so the post should be judged on regular government service at the district hospital and on the posting at Booni rather than on a promised figure. No application-fee amount is printed either; applicants pay the prescribed fee shown on their own deposit slip for each discipline applied for.

Selection Process

Selection runs through ETEA under Project 871. Applicants create a profile on the ETEA portal, verify their CNIC at a NADRA E-Sahulat outlet, select Project 871 and their discipline, print the deposit slip and pay the prescribed fee by the method the slip shows, which may be OneLink, Easypaisa or a UBL branch. ETEA then issues a roll number slip, and candidates are informed by SMS when it is available to download and print; the test date, time and venue are printed on the roll number slip, and no separate call letter is sent by post. The screening test carries a 50 percent minimum pass mark, and only candidates at or above that mark are considered for interview. Documents are not sent to the ETEA office with the application; copies of educational and domicile documents are collected from candidates who qualify the screening test, when the appointing authority asks for them for scrutiny.

Documents Required

• Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC).
• Domicile certificate of District Upper Chitral.
• Matric Science certificate and detailed marks certificate (second division).
• Two-year FPAHS diploma in the discipline applied for, with transcript.
• ETEA profile printout and the stamped original deposit slip (candidate copy), for each discipline applied for.
• E-Sahulat CNIC verification token record.
• Recent passport-size photographs.
• Experience certificates, where the applicant claims any.
• HEC equivalence certificate, for any foreign qualification claimed.
• Female quota certificate, where the applicant claims the reported 10 percent female quota.
• Original documents for verification at the interview or scrutiny stage.
• Any age-relaxation certificate claimed under government rules.

Terms & Conditions

The advertisement carries the standard conditions of an ETEA-run district recruitment. Only candidates holding Upper Chitral domicile qualify, and the 50 percent test threshold applies without exception. No TA or DA is admissible for the test or interview unless the appointing authority states otherwise. Documents are collected from candidates who qualify the screening test, and a false document or a domicile that does not match the CNIC can lead to disqualification at scrutiny. ETEA does not accept late applications, and incomplete applications are not considered. The appointing authority reserves the right to manage the recruitment process as the rules allow, including cancelling or re-advertising a discipline if the rules require it.

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