Agreement reached: Hospital employees end protest over health-risk allowance

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar assures doctors, paramedical staff of federal hospitals provision of health-risk allowance

ISLAMABAD: Employees of federal hospitals ended their protest on Thursday evening after negotiations with the government concluded positively, Express News reported.

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar assured doctors and paramedical staff of federal hospitals that they will be provided health-risk allowance.

The finance division had issued a notification on July 7 under which the health-risk allowance for employees was discontinued from July 30.

Read: Doctors, paramedical staff injured in Islamabad protest

Having failed to move the government on the matter till the deadline of September 8, doctors and paramedical staff had on Tuesday staged a sit-in in Islamabad.

However, when they tried to march towards the Prime Minster's secretariat on Tuesday, police baton-charged the protesters, injuring at least 20 doctors and paramedical staff of federal public hospitals and arrested 12 of them. The arrested medical staffers were later released.