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Patients suffer miserably as doctors' protests enter third day
January 30, 2019
KARACHI, Jan 30 (INP): Doctors’ strike entered its third day on Wednesday while thousands of patients suffer intense difficulties due to the shutdown of Outpatient Departments (OPDs) in government hospitals across Sindh.
Reportedly, the physicians have been demonstrating against the provincial government of Sindh for failing to increase their salaries, allowances and health insurance.
[timed-content-server show="01/31/2019 01:00 Asia/Karachi"]On Tuesday, two patients died allegedly due to unavailability of treatment at the hospitals in Naushehro Feroze. Importantly, doctors have given a call of sit-in on January 31, outside the chief minister house in Sindh, if their demands were not met. The striking doctors have demanded that the provincial government increase their salaries, allowances and health insurance to the same levels as those offered to government doctors in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. The OPDs of hospitals in Hyderabad, Khairpur, Tharparkar, Nawabshah and other cities remained close as doctors associated with the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) and other similar organisations boycotted their duties. The doctors at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), National Institute of Child Health (NICH), Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK), Lyari General Hospital and other government-run hospitals have been holding demonstrations outside their institutes, and have been chanting full-throat slogans in favour of their demands. INP/AK[/timed-content-server]Related Articles
