Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has decided to award Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (posthumously) to the martyred doctors and health workers who took care of patients without caring for their lives during Corona pandemic.
In a statement on Friday, the prime minister paid glowing tributes to the doctors and the frontline workers for their services during Covid-19. He said these sons and daughters of the country died from the deadly pandemic while fulfilling their responsibilities.
He said the whole nation will remain indebted to these dutiful doctors and frontline health workers. He said the families of these doctors and frontline health workers are the pride of the nation.
Tamgha-e-Imtiaz posthumously will be conferred upon 81 doctors from Punjab, 87 from Sindh, 23 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, eight from Balochistan, four from Azad Jammu and Kashmir and one doctor from Gilgit and Islamabad for their hard work and dedication to save people’s lives during Corona pandemic.
Fifty-nine nurses and frontline health workers from across Pakistan will also be honoured with Tamgha-e-Imtiaz posthumously for saving lives of the people without caring about their lives during the Corona epidemic.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday also paid tributes to the minorities for their contribution in nation-building and socio-economic development of the country.
