Karachi:
Sindh public hospitals employees announced on Tuesday a boycott (OPD) on Tuesday to their requests – including a 50% increase in the disparity allowance and a 70% increase in wages – are filled.
The demonstrators have urged the provincial government to increase the wages of all permanent employees from the first to 22 years, guarantee timely payments from group insurance and the benevolent fund and categorically exclude any deduction of pensions.
The leaders of the Grand Health Alliance, which includes Pakistan Medical Association, the Young Doctors Association, the Young Nurses Association, the Allied Health Professionals Association Sindh, the paramedical staff of the Sindh, the young paramedical paramedics and the alliance of Sindh employees, declared that the strike will affect all OPDs and the administrative offices, stay operational.
The decision was made at a gha meeting at the Karachi civilian hospital, which have attended several personalities, including the president of the Sindh employees, Haji Muhammad Ashraf Khaskheli.
Union leaders have stressed that boycott was not a political decision but an attempt to guarantee long -term rights for government health officers. “This measure was taken for the approval of legitimate requests,” they said, warning that the closure would continue until the government takes “concrete and positive measures”.
They also swore that employees of the Sindh government hospitals united on a single platform and would not hesitate to make sacrifices for their rights.
