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KARACHI: The Sindh Doctors Ittehad (SDI) staged on Tuesday a demonstration for the regularisation of contract doctors and restoration of doctors sacked by the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) administration.
SDI President Dr Muhammad Ali Thalu, Dr Kamal Ansari, Dr Shabbir Memon, Dr Abdul Waheed, Dr Ghulam Ali, Dr Sadia , Dr Zain, Dr Ayaz Soomro, Dr Nisar Shah and others led the protesters who were carrying placards and banners inscribed with slogans that demanded time-scale promotions for doctors, justice to health practitioners, increase in doctors' allowances, regularisation of contract doctors and reinstatement of sacked doctors .
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Dr Thalu said doctors and paramedic staff working at the Peoples Primary Health Initiative (PPHI), a non-governmental organisation, were deprived of their basic rights during service. He urged the Sindh government to enact a law to regularise all the contract doctors and paramedic staff working in various health facilities across Sindh province.
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Dr Sadia claimed that nepotism and favouritism were on rise at the NICVD since the last few years. She said dozens of doctors had been terminated from their service by the NICVD administration in the last few months.
She demanded that the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and authorities concerned take notice of mismanagement at the NICVD and reinstate the sacked doctors.
The protesting doctors gave a five-day ultimatum to the Sindh government to accept their demands. They warned that they would start province-wide protests in case their demands were not met.
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