Punjab government has decided to increase the salary package of the doctors’ from July 1, while recommendations for the increased salary package will be finalised by the mid of May. This assurance came in the result of a meeting between Secretary Health Punjab Fawad Hassan Fawad with Young Doctors Association’s 12-member delegation late on Saturday. However, the young doctors would continue their strike at outdoor patient wards till the implementation of the decision. Dr Nasir Abbas led the YDA team, which met with Secretary Health at Lahore General Hospital. Principal PGMI/ LGH Professor Tariq Salahuddin, Prof Haider, Prof Rubina Sohail, Prof Agha Shabbir, Profesor Shoaib Randhawa and MS LGH Dr. Zafar Ikram were also present in the meeting. Dr Nasir Abbas demanded that this assurance should be given to them in black and white so that they could convince their colleagues in general body’s meeting. Fawad directed that the principal LGH to circulate the minutes of the meeting among the stake holders for this purpose. On this occasion, Professor Tariq Salahuddin asked the young doctors to end their strike in OPDs after the assurance from the provincial government to increase in their salaries. He proposed that few YDA representatives should be included in the team for preparing documents of salary package. Secretary Health said that YDA representatives could assist Health Department in preparation of summary, which would be sent to Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif for approval.
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