Stipend for PG doctors

LAHORE

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved the summary to allow unpaid postgraduate trainee doctors to become paid slot and get monthly stipend of Rs 70,000 (approximately). This summary was sent to the CM by Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Secretary Najam Ahmed Shah. 

According to a handout issued on Thursday, a spokesman of Health Department has said that more than 900 honorary PG trainee doctors would be beneficiary of this decision. In this connection, Secretary Health Najam Ahmed Shah revealed that in future all PG slot would be paid and no postgraduate trainee doctor would work honorary and induction would be made only on the sanctioned post. Najam Ahmed Shah said the PG doctors are the responsibility of the government and Specialized Healthcare d& Medical Education Department is the custodian of the doctors and would solve their problems in future also.

Meanwhile, Adviser to CM on Health Kh Salman Rafiq has congratulated the PG doctors and said approval of stipend for unpaid slots of the PGRs is another revolutionary step of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. He said last year 1300 unpaid PG slot were converted into paid slot on the orders of the chief minister. Moreover, few months back the chief minister had announced pay package of Rs.3.5 billion for the doctors.