Overdue: Cardiac centre staff unpaid for nine months
Doctors said for the past nine months, they have approached all the concerned officials.
“Our children are starving and some of us have quit,” said a group of doctors PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
Over 60 staff members of the cardiac centre at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) have gone unpaid for the last nine months.
Paling in comparison is their demand for regularisation of job status, which has also gone unheeded.
It took six years to construct a new building for the centre at a cost of Rs1.2 billion. The new Cardiac and Organ Transplant Centre was inaugurated on December 21, 2012 by Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf.
“Our children are starving and some of us have quit,” said a group of doctors, including assistant professors and anaesthesiologists who wished not to be named.
They said for the past nine months, they have approached all the concerned officials. Pims Executive Director Riaz Ahmed Warraich said he “agrees that it is an injustice with employees who are not getting their salaries for the past nine months”, adding that he has moved their cases to the CAD.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 20th, 2013.
Over 60 staff members of the cardiac centre at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) have gone unpaid for the last nine months.
Paling in comparison is their demand for regularisation of job status, which has also gone unheeded.
It took six years to construct a new building for the centre at a cost of Rs1.2 billion. The new Cardiac and Organ Transplant Centre was inaugurated on December 21, 2012 by Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf.
“Our children are starving and some of us have quit,” said a group of doctors, including assistant professors and anaesthesiologists who wished not to be named.
They said for the past nine months, they have approached all the concerned officials. Pims Executive Director Riaz Ahmed Warraich said he “agrees that it is an injustice with employees who are not getting their salaries for the past nine months”, adding that he has moved their cases to the CAD.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 20th, 2013.