Following teachers, the Paramedical Association of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) has threatened to go on strike if their service structure is not regularised.
“It’s not a one-day strike; we have already chalked out a schedule. It will go on until our demands are met,” Haji Pir Dad Khan, president of the association told The Express Tribune on Friday.
He said that their demands are restoration of service structure including raising salaries and emergency allowance. “All over the country, a service structure for paramedics is in place except for G-B,” he said, adding that their strike will start as a token strike from April 4, but after April 11, they will not attend patients in hospitals, including emergency cases.
The provincial government agreed to accept most of their demands, convincing them to end the strike.
Khan said these issues have lingered on for more than 15 years and demanded that paramedics who have served for over five years be made permanent.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 27th, 2011.
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