Tag: Paramedics

Paramedics call off strike after meeting with Shahbaz

Paramedics of Punjab after successful negotiations with Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday called off one-month long strike. It should be mentioned here...

Paramedics call off strike after meeting Shahbaz

Paramedics of Punjab after successful negotiations with Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday called off one-month long strike. It should be mentioned here that...

Paramedics continue protests

The paramedics’ strike for service structure revision and other demands entered its 27th day on Tuesday. The paramedics in the province continued protesting...

Paramedics continue strike for service structure and regularisation

Paramedics across Punjab continued their protest on Saturday for the demands for revised service structure, health professional allowance and the regularisation of contract employees. The...

Paramedics continue protest on 9th day

Office bearers of the Punjab Paramedical Alliance (PPA) on Wednesday continued their protest for the revision of service structure and other allowances. They conducted a...

Paramedics hold token strike for more salaries

The paramedical staff working in the government hospitals held a token strike on Tuesday, in the Outdoor Patient Departments (OPDs) of the government hospitals...

Don’t fret paramedics, Qaim’s there to help

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah would announce increase in honorarium and other allowance of nurses on Saturday (tomorrow). This was stated by...

Protesting paramedics get their pay cheques

After a strong protest by the doctors and paramedics of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) and Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases (KIHD) on Thursday morning,...

Doctors, paramedics continue protest

After their failure to execute the plan of staging a rally in front of the Parliament House on Tuesday, doctors and paramedical staff of...

Paramedics go on strike after civil hospital attacked

Doctors and paramedics at Civil Hospital Sanghar observed a complete boycott on Monday to protest against the torture of doctors and paramedics by unidentified...

LHC seeks report on petition challenging paramedics’ appointment

Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Friday sought a report and parawise comments from the Punjab government within two weeks on...

Experts seek awareness of nurses, paramedics against infections

Empowerment of nurses, paramedics and janitorial staff at all hospitals through awareness and proper training is extremely crucial to prevent and control infections -...

Paramedics to go on strike for salary increase

Following the successful move by the Young Doctors Association, the All Pakistan Paramedics Staff Federation (APPMSF) Punjab chapter, demanding salary raise of grade one...

Paramedics threat to commit suicide

Punjab Paramedics Alliance (PPA) while protesting infront of the Lahore General Hospital, on Friday, threatened that a number of paramedics would commit suicide infront...

Paramedics threaten to suspend services

LAHORE - Members of the Punjab Paramedics Alliance (PPA) held a protest in front of the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday and threatened to stop working in the public hospitals from next month and take to the streets if the Punjab government did not issue a service structure notification for paramedics' basic pay scales 1 to 16.
PPA President Malik Muneer Ahmed said the Punjab government catered only for the people who protested in front of the Punjab Assembly and added that perhaps

Paramedics participate in anti-polio campaign wearing black bands

LAHORE - Paramedical staff participated in the anti-polio campaign on Monday across Punjab wearing black arm bands as a protest against the Punjab government for not issuing the notification regarding paramedics from BPS-5 to 16. The Punjab government has taken special measures to eradicate polio from the country and to achieve the goal, the health department decided to get the services of paramedical staff from various teaching hospitals for the first time in history.
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Paramedics warn of all-out strike

ISLAMABAD - All Pakistan Paramedical Staff Federation on Tuesday said the paramedics working at hospitals in Islamabad would go on strike from February 17 against what they called government's failure to revise their service structure. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the organisation said its members working at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Federal Government Polyclinic Hospital and a few other government-run hospitals would boycott their duties hence causing