Rawalpindi Cantonment board (RCB) officers have allegedly harassed lady doctors, nurses and other female staff of the Cantonment General Hospital (CGH), employees of the hospital accused while addressing a press conference at the Rawalpindi Press Club on Friday.
Addressing the presser, Dr Noreen Iqbal alleged that the cantonment board administration, headed by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sibtain Raza, was victimising the staff because a writ petition had been filed in the court against the health policy.
Dr Noreen said the health policy issued by the CGH Director General Khalid Saeed was illegal. “The administration is pressurising the staff and taking coercive measures against them,” she said.
She alleged that Waris Bhatti, chief sanitary officer of Rawalpindi Cantonment Board, Babar Zaidi, Yasir and other officers had harassed family members of hospital employees.
She was accompanied by Dr Nadia Iqbal, Dr Rukhsana Nasir, Dr Fatima, Dr Khalida, Dr Saima Mehreen, Staff Nurse Zahida and more than 30 other staff members of the hospital.
“Our demands are simple: regular contractual staff, give health allowance to employees, increase salary package of doctors and stop victimisation,” said Dr Nadia.
“Unlike us, employees at Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar cantonment board hospitals are getting health allowance. Junior doctors appointed on ad hoc basis are getting double salaries than their senior ones,” she said.
Dr Hassan Haider said, “If someone complains against misbehave of the administration they issue them a show cause notice. “The CEO has issued me a warning letter for arranging a protest at administrator’s office,” Hassan said.
CGH employees demanded the chief justice to take notice of their concerns.
Published in Daily Times, July 28th 2018.