Pakistan

Patients Suffer: Doctors’ strike enters fourth day

OPDs and operation theatres at all the major hospitals of the provincial capital remained closed.

Express May 04, 2011

QUETTA: Doctors in Balochistan continued their province-wide strike at state-run hospitals for the fourth consecutive day, demanding salary increments and other benefits equivalent to doctors performing their duties in the federal capital.

All the out-patient departments (OPDs) remained closed while scheduled operations were cancelled.

The strike call was given by Young Doctors Association (YDA) Balochistan.

The patients, who were present in large numbers at the hospitals, severely criticised the government and doctors for not realising the difficulties and hardships faced by poor patients.

“We cannot afford private hospitals. I do not know what the doctors want, but I request and beg the government to overcome this issue because the poor people are suffering”, said Mohammad Khan, a man who brought his brother for treatment.

OPDs and operation theatres at all the major hospitals of the provincial capital remained closed.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 4^th, 2011.

COMMENTS (1)

Haseeb | 13 years ago | Reply When most of the people from the doctor community through out Pakistan have to go on a strike, the governments in all the provinces need to get their priorities straight. We could have called it an evil act, but since all of the doctors are showing the same feelings and agitation across the 4 provinces, it obviously shows the level of frustration and the level of injustice our governments do to the most-educated and the most-hardworking people of our country. How can we expect our healers to work round the clock in pays even less than a police constable.

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