ATH sacked employees seek reinstatement

PESHAWAR - The sacked employees of Ayub Teaching Hospital (ATH) demanded their reinstatement saying that they would continue their peaceful protest until their restoration on jobs. About 458 employees working in ATH, Abbottabad on daily wages were sacked. They started protest demonstrations for their reinstatement. They also demanded removal of the Chief Executive and Medical Superintendent of the hospital. Addressing the protesting employees, Wali Muhammad Khan said that provincial government was resorting to a tilted policy with the people of Hazara region adding that if the former want to create good well among the masses, it should restore those sacked employees of ATH, which were bread earners of their households. He said that if poor employees were continued pressed and forbad from earning livelihood for their families, there would be chaos and uncertainty in the society. Protesting employees maintained on the occasion that if both the Chief Executive Dr Ziaur Rahman and Medical Superintendent Dr Haroon were sincere enough for the betterment of ATH than they should rendered their resignations as they have time and again made it known on various forums that the running of the hospital was impossible without services of employees working on daily wages there. The protestors demanded their restoration before start of holy month of Ramazan, on the contrary, of which they said that the whole responsibility would fall on the district administration and the hospital high ups for not heeding their concerns. It is to mention here that the sacked daily wagers earlier blockade Silk Route in favour of their demands and chanted anti-government slogans. The Nation learnt that the Special Secretary Health, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dr Noorul Eman maintained that a special meeting would be convened in the days to come in Peshawar to ponder over the issue of daily wage earners at ATH and to resolve the same.

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