Doctors continues protest in Punjab for 13th day

By Farheen Rizvi Jun 30th, 2012 ( 3 Comments )

Lahore: Young doctors have refused to resume duties in the Outdoor Patient Departments (OPDs) of all the hospitals in Punjab the face of a deadline that ends today Saturday.

The Young Doctors Association (YDA) strike entered thirteenth day on Saturday while on the other Punjab government it has decided to sent all the protesting doctors to jail after the deadline ends.

The Punjab government Thursday, warning the doctors of dire consequences, had given YDA three days to end their strike. The deadline ends tonight (Saturday) at 12:00 AM.

According to media reports, Section 144 has been imposed at all public hospitals on the directive of the provincial government along with deployment of heavy contingents of riot police.

The Punjab government announced that it has decided to hire ad-hoc doctors on a three-year contract.

According to sources, Punjab government is also preparing a list of alternate senior doctors in case of a complete strike.

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Awaisjavaid251

people are not aware of complete facts young doctors didnt go on complete strike for fun there was imense police brutality on doctors when they entered doctors hostel two of the doctors got critically injured and are now in icu two of them had got theirs bones broken it was after this when all out strike was declared .media had already been given money to play fun on this part if people come to know reality only then asumptions can be made. doctors are always targeted by media even on faults govts are blamed instead on doctors by media biggest example is the medicine if medine manufacturing is faulty and does any bad to patient its not the responsibility of doctor its govt responsibilty to keep check on medicine quality. i invite all of you to do one day work in gvt hospitals and see for yourself. media only does propaganda
Nadeem

We saw on TV that doctors from India have arrived in Pakistan for treating Pakistani patients. They are giving appointments to patients for seeing them in India and also will give Visas to the patients. If Indians are that good they should end the occupation of Kashmir, do not stop Pakistani Waters, leave Siachin and do not interfere in Baluchistan.

In the above perspective, the government should also look into the possibility whether the Pakistani young doctors are playing in the hands of our enemy.
http://aaqil.co.uk/ Aaqil Mahmood

We don’t need this kind of doctors.