Junior doctors of Balochistan have threatened to collectively tender their resignations if their demands are not met by June 13, 2011.
Addressing a news conference at the Sandeman Hospital here on Thursday, Balochistan Young Doctors Association (YDA) President Samad Panezai and General Secretary Shoab Baloch said as many as 1,500 doctors across Balochistan have submitted their resignations to the YDA.
“If demands are not met till June 13, then all the doctors will collectively tender their resignations to the concerned official. Doctors will also hold a sit-in protest in front of the Chief Minister Secretariat,” they said.
Doctors criticised Balochistan’s health minister and held him responsible for creating problems in giving pay raises.
“The government is not giving us our legitimate rights. First they sacked 127 doctors and when the doctors did not return to their duties they stopped the process of termination,” they said.
“Doctors will not call off their strike until demands are fulfilled.”
The president and general secretary added that doctors have been protesting for two months due to which 8 million people throughout Balochistan were suffering but the government is still unheedful. “The strike is not meant to create problems for poor people but to get our legitimate rights.”
Meanwhile, all the Out-Patient Departments (OPDs) at four major hospitals including Sandeman, Bolan Medical Complex, Helper Eye Hospital and Fatimah Jinnah Hospital remained closed and general surgical operations were cancelled.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 7th, 2011.
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