Capital doctors to get allowance boost

Health ministry sends summary to finance ministry

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Health Ministry has accepted the demand of the doctors of Islamabad to equalise their healthcare allowance, professional allowance, teaching allowance and non-practice allowance to that available to doctors in Punjab province.

The Health ministry has prepared a summary in this regard and sent it to the Finance Ministry for approval.

Young Doctors Association (YDA) Islamabad chapter has been demanding for a long time that the federal government enhance their allowance and bring it at par with the allowances given to doctors in the Punjab province.

The YDA had presented their demands to Special Adviser to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Zafar Mirza, sources in health department told The Express Tribune on Thursday.

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The source also confirmed that the SAPM seeks the senior doctors’ consent into the doctor’s demands. Moreover, a summary of the doctor’s demands has been sent to the federal finance department.

The summary to the finance department has proposed that grade 17 doctors would get 75 percent increase of their initial basic pay, 75 percent professional heath allowance, 75 percent non-practicing allowance and 57 percent increase in teaching allowances.

While the grade 18 doctors would also get similar allowances against their initial basic pay and grade 19 would get 50 percent of special health care allowance, professional health allowance and 50 percent each non-practicing and teaching allowance against their initial basic pay.

Furthermore, grade 20 doctors would also get 50 percent of their allowances against their initial pay scales.

The Insaf Doctor’s Forum Chairman Dr Khawar was contacted on the matter, and informed that a summary has been shared with the finance department, and soon the doctors would get an allowance equal to that of doctors in Punjab.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, July 26^th, 2019.