State hospitals paramedics stage protest

FAISALABAD: Paramedical staff of four government-run hospitals of Faisalabad on Wednesday staged demonstrations to press their demands of increase in wages in addition to the payment of fringe benefits.

Paramedical staff of Allied Hospital, District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital, General Hospital Ghulam Muhammad Abad and Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology (FIC) took out protest rallies from the hospitals and these rallies emerged at Zila Council Cowk where the protestors staged a sit-in before the Secretariat of local City District Government.

They holding banners and placards chanted slogans in favor of their demands and said that if the Punjab government did not pay any heed to their requests, they would be constrained to take direct action for the protect of their legitimate rights.

They demanded the government that all employees of grade 1 to 4 should be paid salaries in accordance with Service Structure while grade 5 to 17 employees would be paid salaries according to the revised pay scale with immediate effects.

The demonstrators also demanded health allowance and pay protection allowance as is admissible to the doctors and nursing staff of these hospitals.

They also demanded regularization of all contractual and daily wage earners and threatened that if their demands were not accepted immediately, they would launch a province wide protestation campaign. (APP)