Class-IV workers seek professional health allowance.

LAKKI MARWAT -- Class-IV employees of the health department here have demanded health professional allowance as given to doctors and paramedics and conversion of CP fund into GP fund.

The demand was made at the oath-taking ceremony of health department's class-IV employees union at the district headquarters hospital, Tajazai, here on Thursday.

Former district naib nazim Arab Khan was the chief guest at the ceremony, which was also attended by All Pakistan Class-IV Employees Union's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter president Akbar Khan Mohmand, provincial general secretary Ishfaq Ahmad Khattak, finance secretary Gul Faraz and other office-bearers.

The chief guest administered oath to the newly-elected office-bearers and announced a cash donation of Rs10,000 for the employees' union. Arab Khan said that he...