Paramedics present charter of demands

PESHAWAR: The Paramedical Association Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday presented a charter of demands to the government and asked it to honour the commitments it had made with the paramedics.

The demand was made during a meeting of the association held with its president Syed Roidad Shah in the chair. Other office-bearers attended the meeting. The meeting discussed various issues faced by paramedics and put forward a charter of demands to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.

They asked Chief Minister Pervez Khattak to implement his orders of up gradation of paramedics and issue notification to this effect. Other demands included announcement of three cadres for paramedics (Clinical, Teaching and Management cadre), approve prospectus for paramedics diploma holders to save precious time of students, send the draft of paramedical council to federal government for approval, create BPS-17-18 for paramedics in line with the existing laws.

They asked the Health Department high-ups and chairman of the Board of Governors Healthcare Commission to issue a notification to allow limited practice to paramedics in their respective fields, cancel the transfers order of paramedics, nurses, clerks, class-IV employees and sanitation staff transferred to far-off districts, convene a meeting to address the reservations of paramedics regarding Medical Faculty Act and others.