80% of contribution must be spent on secured workers of Faisalabad: PESSI chairman.

FAISALABAD -- At least 80% of the social security contribution, collected from Faisalabad must be spent on the secured workers of the city, and in this connection the administrative as well as financial hurdles should be removed on priority basis.

This was demanded by Engineer Hafiz Ihtasham Javed, President Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Chairman Advisory Board of the Punjab Employees Social Security Institution (PESSI).

He was chairing a meeting of the monitory and advisory board of the PESSI medical outlets at the PESSI Hospital Madina Town. He said that the present team was efficiently running the hospital; however, further improvement was imperative to facilitate workers and their families. He said that industrialists pay their due contribution so that the best possible medical and other facilities could be ensured to their workers.

He said that Prime Minister Imran Khan was of the opinion that we must streamline our system of governance by putting the industrial sector back on the right track. He also stressed the need to improve the health infrastructure and added that in this connection trilateral cooperation between employees, employers and PESSI officials is necessary.

Earlier, Dr Ejaz Mumtaz Sheikh, Medical Superintendent PESSI Hospital, said...