KARACHI, Jan 25: Doctors belonging to the defunct KMC have been facing discrimination for more than three years.

The non-implementation of the four-tier system has badly affected their chances of promotion to grade 18 and above. They have not even received their last month’s salaries on account of some errors on the part of the finance department.

Though the system was introduced in the provincial health department in 1994 and the secretary of local government had directed the defunct KMC authorities, in March 1998, to carry out the orders, it was, however, implemented on the last working day of the KMC when it ceased to exist from August 14, 2001, with the formation of the city government.

Without the implementation of the four-tier system, the doctors would move to grade-18 at the most, before retiring.

The system is based on a grade-wise distribution of total number of doctors present in an organization at the ratio of 1:15:34:50 for grades 20,19,18 and 17.—PPI