Zardari undersigns doctors pay raise

ISLAMABAD: President Zardari has signed the summary regarding post graduate trainee doctors salaries doing housejob, raising their pays form Rs18,000 to Rs50,000, Geo News reported Wednesday. According to the summary, the salary of a medical officer will be raised to Rs60,000 per month and he will get Rs6000 as annual increment. The pay raise has been allowed under Career Structure for Health Personnel Ordinance-2011. Under the new structure non-practicing allowance for doctors working in Federal Government hospitals will be increased from Rs20000 to Rs80000 per month. Monthly pay of a nurse has been raised to Rs40000 a month.