KARACHI: Sindh Paramedical Staff Joint Action Committee on Wednesday gave 15-day ultimatum to Sindh government for approval of health professional allowance and meeting their other “genuine” demands.
If the government refused to meet their demands, the committee has warned to hold a Sindh-wide protest and will observe two-hour token daily strike from February 16 to February 20, and then go for a complete boycott of duties from February 21 to February 25, 2018, throughout the province.
Speaking a press conference at the Karachi Press Club, the representatives of the SPSWA, Pakistan Paramedical Staff Association (PPMSA), All Sindh Peoples Paramedical Staff Welfare Association, Medical AID Committee and Peoples Paramedical Staff Association said that the Sindh government has already announced giving health professional allowance to the staff of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and National Institute of Child Health, but the paramedical staff are deprived of these allowances.
Joint Action Committee central leader Akhlaq Ahmed Khan said the doctors, nurses and pharmacists have been availing all allowances, including health professional allowance, while paramedics are being deprived of these allowances.
He claimed that paramedical staff in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan, has already been receiving health and other allowances but Sindh government is reluctant to give allowances to the paramedics of the province.
He said paramedics’ representative bodies do not support a strike or protest in hospitals which doubles the miseries of patients but unfortunately the high-ups of Sindh health department are compelling the paramedics to observe strike in favour of their demands.
