Employees of federal hospitals protest in Islamabad on September 10, 2015. PHOTO: WASEEM NAZIR/EXPRESS
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.
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