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Pakistan: Large number of Bajaur medics quit jobs over non-payment of salaries

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Dec 19, 2023, at 11:02 pm

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Several doctors and other para-medic staff have left their jobs in three hospitals, which are operating under public-private partnership (PPP) mode in Bajaur region of Pakistan, over non-payment of salaries.

According to reports, they have not been paid for the past 11 months.

They told Dawn that a number of doctors and paramedical staff of the Tehsil Headquarters Hospitals, Nawagai, Pashat Salarzai and Category-D Hospital, Larkholozo Mamond, which were running under the PPP mode, had quit their jobs in protest against non-payment of their salary for last 11 months.

The sources though did not mention the exact number of doctors and paramedical staff having quit their jobs recently, disclosed that over half of doctors and paramedics of these health facilities, including women nurses, had left their jobs due to the prolonged delay in payment of their salaries.

The sources claimed the quitting doctors and paramedics had set a two weeks deadline to the management of Trans-Continental Pharma (TCP) that runs these hospitals for payment of withheld salary in in the first week of December.

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