Non-medical employees of govt hospitals seek health allowance
Photo by Abdul Sattar
MARDAN, 22 October: The clerks, class IV and other employees of the government hospitals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have launched a province-wide protest campaign against the provincial government for not providing them with health allowance.
The employees staged protest demonstrations in Charsadda and outside Mardan Press Club on Friday and Saturday respectively.
The protesters said that the government should announce professional health allowance for them, otherwise, they would be compelled to extend the protest campaign to all the districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
During the protest demonstration in Mardan on Saturday, the provincial president of paramedical and class-IV employees Nabi Ameen told TNN that all the hospitals in the entire province would be closed down except the emergency services if their demands were not met.”We don’t want the patients to suffer but we have no other option to force the government accept our demands “.
Earlier, the provincial government announced health professional allowance for doctors performing their duties in far flung areas for which the districts have been divided into different categories keeping in view the backwardness of the area.
The lowest allowances are paid to the doctors working in districts having better facilities like Peshawar and Abbottabad while the highest allowances are paid to doctors who are based in the most backward districts like Torghar and Kohistan.
