Ongoing strike: Islamabad doctors join Punjabi colleagues
Pims OPDs will remain closed for 2 hours daily.
ISLAMABAD:
The Young Doctors Association (YDA) Islamabad Chapter on Saturday decided to go on strike in the federal capital from Monday, to press the authorities to accept their demands of increased wages. The association made this decision in an executive committee meeting on Saturday.
YDA Islamabad Chapter President Dr Sajid Abbasi said that the Outpatient Department (OPD) of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) will remain closed from 11am to 1pm on Monday.
He said the government was asked to revise the pay scale and salary structure of doctors to Rs35,000 for house officers, Rs80,000 for postgraduate trainee doctors, Rs120,000 for senior registrars, Rs200,000 for assistant professors and Rs300,000 for professors.
Doctors in all hospitals in Punjab have been on strike over wages for the past 19 days. The call for strike was by Punjab YDA after they got no response from the provincial government on their demands for increased salaries, pay protection and an increase in the health budget.
While the strikes continue, doctors have set up free medical camps outside the hospitals to provide free-of-charge treatment to accommodate poor patients.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 20th, 2011.
The Young Doctors Association (YDA) Islamabad Chapter on Saturday decided to go on strike in the federal capital from Monday, to press the authorities to accept their demands of increased wages. The association made this decision in an executive committee meeting on Saturday.
YDA Islamabad Chapter President Dr Sajid Abbasi said that the Outpatient Department (OPD) of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) will remain closed from 11am to 1pm on Monday.
He said the government was asked to revise the pay scale and salary structure of doctors to Rs35,000 for house officers, Rs80,000 for postgraduate trainee doctors, Rs120,000 for senior registrars, Rs200,000 for assistant professors and Rs300,000 for professors.
Doctors in all hospitals in Punjab have been on strike over wages for the past 19 days. The call for strike was by Punjab YDA after they got no response from the provincial government on their demands for increased salaries, pay protection and an increase in the health budget.
While the strikes continue, doctors have set up free medical camps outside the hospitals to provide free-of-charge treatment to accommodate poor patients.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 20th, 2011.