Summary YDA has vowed to continue strike until salaries are issued
QUETTA (Dunya News) – Outpatient departments (OPDs) are shut in government hospitals across the province on the eighth consecutive day as Young Doctors Association (YDA) continues protest for its demands, Dunya News reported Tuesday.
Patients are not getting timely treatment while those who are coming from far flung areas are forced to return without any medical assistance.
The association launched protests for non-provision of salaries. Medics have stated that the government has not issued their salaries until filing of this report. The association has also demanded arrests of criminals who tortured the protesters.
YDA has vowed to continue strike until salaries are issued.
On the other hand, a medic named Irshad Ahmed Khosa who was abducted on May 9 has not been recovered yet.
The organization has called a meeting today to discuss course-of-action against the alleged slack administration over fellow’s abduction.
Last month, YDA s protest had claimed lives of four patients in Sargodha District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) as emergency and outpatient department were shut.
Association protested against colleague’s dismissal and attempted to shut the services at hospital. Senior medics on duty resisted association’s rowdy behaviour. Clash was intensified when protesters manhandled the senior doctors.
Stampede and fracas landed the medics out of the hospital leaving patients unattended.
Four patients, under treatment in emergency ward died due to lack of in-time treatment. Heavy contingent of police reached the hospital and took several persons in custody.
