The Sindh government has allocated Rs 2.9 million in the annual budget 2011-12 to support the families of doctors, who became the victims of targeted killings in the city and those dying of infectious diseases. It was also announced in the new budget that the medical officers working in casualty and trauma centres will get Rs 6,000 as Causality Allowance for the laborious nature of their job, while the doctors treating patients of infectious and contagious diseases such as tuberculosis, swine flu, bird flu and others will also receive Rs 6,000 as ‘Hard Work Allowance’.
An allowance of Rs 1,500,000 was allocated for supporting the families of the doctors, who fall victim to target killers and also those who die of infectious diseases.
In his budget speech in the Sindh Assembly, Finance Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah claimed that the provincial government has achieved 95 percent polio coverage and to achieve 100 percent coverage, Rs 50 million are being kept aside for the polio programme in the next fiscal year.
For the early completion of anti-snake venom vaccine and anti-rabies vaccine laboratory, the Sindh government has allocated Rs 40 million. Besides that Rs 80 million will be released in the next fiscal year for the ‘malaria action control plan’.
In the new budget, an amount of Rs 6.9 billion has been allocated for the development schemes of the health sector under the Annual Development Plan.
Doctors get a healthy raise in allowances
