PESHAWAR: The roads in Peshawar city witnessed the worst traffic mess when non-technical employees of health department went on strike to demand professional allowance.
The members of Paramedical Association (Class-IV) belonging to different districts gathered at Jinnah Park from where they marched towards the provincial assembly building. The protest caused logjams on all roads in the city.
Later, Provincial Minister for Finance Muzaffar Said met the protesting employees and accepted their demand of granting them health professional allowance. The protest ended after people faced great hardships on roads for no fault of theirs.
The government employees are in the habit of coming on roads for petty matters, without thinking about ensuing problems for the people visiting the provincial capital from all over the province.
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Bumper-to-bumper vehicular traffic also made it difficult for the ambulances to pass by.
Addressing the protesters, Nabi Ameen, president of the association, said that 19,583 staffers of health department had been left out of the allowance. He said that they were also at risk like other employees and deserved to be given the allowance.