Warning: Quetta doctors should be reinstated, demands PMA

PMA gives one-week deadline to Balochistan government to come to the negotiating table.

KARACHI:

Doctors in Balochistan are not asking for anything different than those in the rest of the country and they should not be penalised for it, said the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA).

The medical body’s central wing held a press conference at PMA House on Wednesday. According to PMA central secretary-general Dr Mirza Ali Azhar, the Balochistan government is unwilling to negotiate with the doctors despite several attempts made by the body’s Balochistan chapter.

Consequently, the PMA feels they are left with no option but to announce a one-week deadline to bring the Balochistan government to the negotiating table and reinstate all sacked doctors during these protests.

In what seemed a spur of the moment declaration, Azhar said that if the Balochistan government did not solve the doctors’ problems, the doctors are welcome to come to Karachi, where the association would accommodate them in positions across the province.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 2^nd, 2011.