Service structure: Paramedics get health allowance

PPA thanked the government for giving a health allowance to paramedics in grades 1-4

LAHORE: The Punjab Paramedics Alliance (PPA) has thanked the government for giving a health allowance to paramedics in grades 1-4, but demanded that it also accept their demands for changes to their service structure. At a PPA meeting on Tuesday, Chairman Malik Munir said that health support staff in grades 1-17 should also be given an appropriate service structure, while paramedics in grades 1-4 should be given a health risk allowance. He also demanded that contract employees under the Board of Management also be given a health risk allowance.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 8^th, 2012.