Pakistan Medical Association Meeting for new doctors’ salary packages

 An 18-member Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) council was constituted on Saturday 26th May at the Mayo Hospital Lahore after the combined meeting of the PMA, Young Doctors Association (YDA) and Medical Teachers Association (MTA), which was attended by a large number of senior and young doctors of Mayo Hospital.

Dr Husnain Haider was appointed the convener of the committee. The meeting was presided over by PMA President Dr Muhammad Tanveer Anwar. The meeting was called today to finalize the line of action regarding the special salary package for doctors to forward it to the finance and health departments. A committee headed by the chief secretary (CS) has been constituted by the Punjab chief minister to fulfill doctors' demands.
After the first meeting, the CS directed doctors and the finance and health department secretaries to finalize the demands for consideration. The doctors associations met to finalize a proposal to be submitted to the respective departments. The meeting also concluded that if the doctors were given a special salary package by the Punjab government, they were even willing to give up their private practices.
The doctors demanded that a house officer should be given Rs 35,000, Medical Officer/PGR Rs 80,000, Senior Registrar/SMO Rs 160,000, Assistant Professor/APMO Rs 200,000, Associate Professor Rs 250,000, Professor Rs 400,000, Specialist Cadre in 18 grade Rs 150,000, grade 19 Rs 200,000 and 20 grade Rs 250,000. Doctors ensured their active participation in any protest movement which may be launched in case the genuine demands of doctors were not fulfilled by the government.

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