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Mithi, Tharparkar
The Young Paramedical Association (YPA) announced here solidarity with some four dozen lower-grade employees of Sindh Health Department, agitating for release of salaries, unpaid since 2017, who continued their hunger strike on 21st day on Monday.
The protesting employees have setup their camp outside local press club and are observing hunger strike on daily basis. The provincial level office bearers of Paramedical Association, who visited the camp, warned of launching province-wide movement if the government failed to resolve the issue of agitating employees.
YPA chairperson Faiza Khan, Abdul Jabbar Kunbhar, Ghaffar Rind, Ghulam Shabbir Leghari and other paramedic leaders while talking to newsmen said that the paramedics and other employees are frontline soldiers of health department who had been performing duties during emergency situations. They urged the health department authorities to release salaries to the employees or in the first phase they will spread the scope of agitation to entire district of Tharparkar and later across the province and finally sit-in would be staged in front of Chief Minister’s House in Karachi.
“We will continue protest and hunger strike unto justice,” Fahim Junejo, Ali Nawaz Rahmoon, Loang Samo, Alji Bheel and other protesters also told newsmen.
“We have been performing regular duties since appointment and even performed during the emergency situations like Covid-19, Anti-Polio Campaigns etc. but the department has stopped their salaries,” they told.
According to protesting employees, they were appointed in the year 2015 but later the department cancelled their fitness certificates, which they challenged in Sindh High Court. The court had ordered Sindh Health Department for reinstatement of employees in 2017. Following the court order, the department allowed 49 employees to rejoin but didn’t release salaries since then. The Chief Minister had also issued directives to the health department for releasing salaries of 49 employees in 2019 but the authorities of health department didn’t pay heed to SHC orders and the Chief Minister’s directives.
The protesting employees told that they have been passing through hard times depending on loans but now their families are at the verge of starvation.
They appealed to the Sindh High Court and the Chief Minister to take notice and resolve their issue.
The protesting employees include dispensers, gardeners, watchmen etc.
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]]>By GR Junejo
Mithi
Some four dozen lower-grade employees of Sindh Health Department are agitating for release of salaries, as according to them they have not been paid since 2017.
The protesting employees have setup their camp outside local press club and are observing hunger strike on daily basis since last ten days. “We will continue protest and hunger strike unto justice,” Fahim Junejo, Ali Nawaz Rahmoon, Loang Samo, Alji Bheel and other protesters told newsmen.
“We have been performing regular duties since appointment and even performed during the emergency situations like Covid-19, Anti-Polio Campaigns etc. but the department has stopped their salaries,” they told.
According to protesting employees, they were appointed in the year 2015 but later the department cancelled their fitness certificates, which they challenged in Sindh High Court. The court had ordered Sindh Health Department for reinstatement of employees in 2017. Following the court order, the department allowed 49 employees to rejoin but didn’t release salaries since then. The Chief Minister had also issued directives to the health department for releasing salaries of 49 employees in 2019 but the authorities of health department didn’t pay heed to SHC orders and the Chief Minister’s directives.
The protesting employees told that they have been passing through hard times depending on loans but now their families are at the verge of starvation.
They appealed to the Sindh High Court and the Chief Minister to take notice and resolve their issue.
The protesting employees include dispensers, gardeners, watchmen etc.
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]]>Karachi: Sindh Health Department has constituted a 13-member Board of Governors of Sir Cowasjee Jahangir Institute of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Hyderabad.
A notification, issued by the provincial health department, says that the Board of Governors has been constituted in exercise of Sir Cowasjee Jahangir Institute of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Act 2019, and with the approval of Sindh Chief Minister, who is the competent authority.
The Board of Governors consists of Minister for Health (Chairman), Chairman, Sindh Mental Health Authority (Vice Chairman), two members of provincial assembly of Sindh, to be nominated by Speaker, Divisional Commissioner Hyderabad, Vice Chancellor, Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, Jamshoro, Vice Chancellor, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Director General Health Services Sindh, Hyderabad, Professor Ahmed Ali Khan, an eminent psychiatrist, LUMHS Alumni, working abroad, Prof. Dr. Irfana Shah, Head of Psychology Department, University of Sindh, Irfan Qureshi, representative of business community, Jhamat Mal Advocate and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute, who will act as the member and secretary of the Board.
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Secretary Health ordered to file satisfactory reply on May 18; show-cause notice will be served on him in case of failure
By GR Junejo
Mithi: Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed the secretary of provincial health department to submit a reply in a contempt of court petition filed against him for not reinstating 49 employees of Tharparkar as per court orders.
Adjourning the hearing of petition till May 18, the 2-member Division Bench of SHC Hyderabad consisting of Justice Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan and Justice Muhammad Saleem Jesar, warned in its order of issuing show cause notice to the secretary health in case of failure in submitting the reply and appearing in the court.
The SHC had ordered the health department in 2017 for reinstating 89 employees of which 49 have not yet been reinstated to their jobs. The employees, including Mashooq Ali Rajar, Ali Nawaz Rahmoon and others, through their counsel Taj Muhammad Keerio had filed a petition for non-compliance of the court orders even after four years.
The SHC, on the contempt of court petition, had directed the secretary health to submit the detailed reply on March 18, 2021 however he neither appeared in the court nor submitted any reply.
The Division Bench of SHC in its written verdict on April 29, stated that petitioners’ counsel has argued that despite clear assurance given by the Additional Advocate General Sindh, the Secretary Health is still not complying with this court’s order dated September 14, 2017 wherein directions have been given to the respondent however till date salaries of the petitioners have not been released.
The Division Bench of SHC adjourning the hearing till 11am on May 18, stated that if no satisfactory reply is filed by the Secretary Health, the show cause notice would be issued to him. The court has sent the copy of its order to the Chief Secretary Sindh for compliance.
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