LAHORE – Pakistan Pharmacist Association (PPA) demanded federal government to award pharmacists Special Pay Scale (SPS) 9. They rallied from the Punjab University (PU) Old Campus to the GPO on Monday, protesting that the government had awarded SPS 9 to doctors but had discriminated against pharmacists by only awarding them SPS 7. A number of pharmacists from different public sector hospitals participated in the rally, headed by Prof Dr Bashir Ahmed.
PPA appealed to the prime minister that doctors and pharmacist be treated alike. They demanded the Punjab government to include one of their members in ‘pay package committer’ and increase their salaries. Prof Dr Bashir Amed, while addressing the participants, said that the prime minister had issued SPS for health professionals in which pharmacists were ignored and were only awarded SPS 7, while doctors were awarded SPS 9.
He said that pharmacists also went through the same process as doctors but the government acknowledged only doctors’ services, neglecting the pharmacists, who were the backbone of public hospitals.
Pharmacists and doctors be treated alike: PPA
