The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the
The meeting, chaired by Adviser to the PM on Finance Dr
The additional salary to health workers treating the coronavirus patients will be disbursed under risk allowance.
A technical grant of
The ECC meeting will review the progress on the wheat procurement process. Other items on the agenda include the regulations for the Prime Minister's Successful Youth Programme and a
Health workers to receive allowances in Sindh
Last month, the Sindh government had decided to pay one month's basic salary as a bonus to medical professionals in the province.
Similarly, the Punjab government had also approved an honorarium equal to a month's basic pay for the healthcare providers working diretctly with coronavirus-infected patients.
However, doctors and paramedic in Punjab have complained that it was almost impossible for them to claim the bonus they were eligible only if they had completed 96 hours a month in a coronavirus facility with at least 30 beds.
According to the Punjab government's rules for public hospitals, doctors treat Covid-19 patients six hours a day for a week. Then, to ensure the doctor has not contracted the virus, they must go into self-quarantine for 14 days.
This brings the total working hours to 84 a month. That is below the 96 hours required to meet the condition for the bonus.
Unlike Sindh and Punjab, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has refused to release an additional month's salary to doctors and paramedics.
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