Polyclinic technicians set to get withheld salary

Islamabad: At last, here is something for the Federal Government Polyclinic’s several dozen technicians awaiting salary for almost nine months.

State Minister for Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD)  Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, who has the administrative control of this second largest government hospital of the capital, has claimed the resolution of the issue saying the low-grade technicians working at Polyclinic’s pharmacies, laboratories, blood bank and operation theatres would get due payments in few days.

The development comes in the wake of protests and strike by the technicians, who regretted the remuneration denial despite getting job after passing written tests and interviews.

They insisted that the court of law had asked the CADD earlier this year to pay them withheld salary but the latter challenged the orders and thus, delaying action on the orders to their misery.

A member of the hospital’s administration said litigation had hampered payments to junior technicians mostly working in BPS-9.

A CADD official insisted that some anomalies were involved in the process of the technicians’ appointment and therefore, the payment of salary to them was withheld.