Contractual employees: Doctors demand regularization

PESHAWAR: All Homeopathic Doctors and Tib Association held a protest outside the Peshawar Press Club on Monday demanding the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government to regularise the services of 50 homeopathic doctors and hakims, who have been working in the district headquarters hospitals for the last six years.

President of the association, Hakim Muhammad Nasir, led the demonstrations.

He said that 24 homeopathic doctors and as many hakims were recruited six years back on district levels around the province and were employed on the condition that their jobs would be made permanent on the basis of their performances.

“They have been working on regular posts for the last six years as contract employees,” Hakim Nasir said, adding that later the provincial health minister also assured them that their services would be regularised but even after the end of its tenure, the government has not fulfilled its promise.

Nasir demanded the chief minister to immediately pass an executive order to make the alternative medicine practitioners permanent employees.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 19^th, 2013.