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Summary Ladies Police beat nurses as they were protesting for increase in their salaries.
The nurses violated section 144 at the Mall Lahore. In Lahore all nurses stopped work in indoor and outdoor wards and gathered at the Press Club Lahore to press their demands.They said the government promised to increase their salaries along with doctors but did not honour the commitment. The nurses reached the Assembly Hall and staged a sit-in despite LHC orders against such an activity on The Mall Road.PPP leader Shaukat Basra met the nurses and promised to raise the issue in the assembly. Special Secretary Health Mohammed Daud also met with the protesting nurses but the talks failed.The lady police resorted to baton-charge which resulted in an injury to one nurse.
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