PHRC retired employees not paid pensions for two years.

ISLAMABAD -- Around 200 retired employees and widows of employees of Pakistan Health Research Council (PHRC) have been denied their right to receive pension since the last two and half years.

Minister of National Health Services (NHS) Abdul Qadir Patel, while talking to Dawn, said that he will look into the matter and will direct the NHS secretary to resolve this issue at the earliest.

It is worth mentioning that retired employees of PHRC, formerly called Pakistan Medical Research Council (PMRC), have been running from pillar to post to receive their pensions but to no avail. The PMRC was established in 1962 and later the Ministry of Science and Technology took control of it from the Ministry of Health in 1985. Retired employees continued to get their pensions till the year 2017. However, employees who retired after January 2019 have not been paid pensions.

The widow of an employee Mohammad Shafi, in a written letter to Dawn, stated that her husband was a...