ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif decided to award Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (posthumously) to martyred doctors and health workers who took care of patients without caring for their lives during Corona endemic.

In statement, Prime Minister paid glowing tributes to doctors and front line workers for their services during Covid-19. He said these sons and daughters of country died from deadly pandemic while fulfilling their responsibilities.

He said whole nation will remain indebted to these dutiful doctors and frontline health workers. He said families of these doctors and frontline health workers are pride of nation.

Tamgha-e-Imtiaz posthumously will be conferred upon eighty-one doctors from Punjab, eighty-seven from Sindh, twenty-three 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 endemic.

Fifty-nine nurses and frontline health workers from across Pakistan will also be honored with Tamgha-e-Imtiaz posthumously for saving lives of people without caring about their lives during Corona.