Increased for doctors : Non-clinical staff at KTH yet to obtain health allowance

Decision to issue health professional allowance to be made in July

PESHAWAR: The board of governors of Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) has already announced a health professional allowance for doctors and other clinical staff members. However, it has not taken any decision on whether the allowance for non-clinical staff is admissible for non clinical staff.

The decision on the allowance was taken during a meeting on Saturday of the board at the hospital. Dr Faisal Sultan, the board’s head, chaired the moot. It was agreed that the decision on the health professional allowance for the non-clinical staff will be taken in July.

The meeting decided the increase in the health professional allowance for doctors while admissibility of the allowance to non-clinical staff will be decided during a joint meeting of the members of board of governors and hospital directors of all medical teaching institutions (MTI).

A statement issued by the KTH administration read the long-standing issue of the health professional allowance to the hospital staff was discussed in detail and it was unanimously decided that all the nursing staff, paramedical staff which have already been awarded the health professional allowance by the government, will be granted the allowance as per the criteria.



“Non-clinical staff, including ministerial staff members, staff members dealing with the information technology department, maintenance and all the class-IV cadre employees will be awarded Rs10,000 [BPS-1 to 7] whereas Rs20,000 will be awarded to employees serving at BPS-8 and above,” the statement read.

It added promotion cases were also approved. Dr Iqbal Haider has been promoted as assistant professor of medicines, Dr Masroor Badshah, Dr Munila Shabnum Khattak, Dr Sadaf Ambreen and Dr Zainab Rehman to assistant professors of anatomy at Khyber Medical College and Dr Sajjad Muhammad has been promoted to the post of assistant professor of physiology at the college.

The statement read staff performance besides improvement of the accident and emergency department were also discussed.

The meeting was also attended by KTH Director Brigadier (retd) Dr Fazl-e-Akbar, Medical Director Professor Dr Roohulul Muqeem, principals of Khyber Medical College, Khyber College of Dentistry and others.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 26^th, 2016.