Doctors continue strike on fourth day

PESHAWAR: The Khyber- Pakhtunkhawa Doctors council (KPDC) has continued its protest on the fourth consecutive day, with OPDs being boycotted and only emergency services being provided by doctors across the province.

On one hand the council has specifically pointed out that if their demands of forming a judicial commission to probe the incident is not formed, the strike will continue while the government claims that doctors have resumed services at the OPDs in hospitals, however independent sources have been unable to confirm that medical services have been restored at hospitals across the province.

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Security is still on high alert across the hospitals in the province, while heavy contingents of police are deployed  across the three major health facilities across the provincial capital, while armored vehicles are also present in the vicinity of Lady Reading Hospital.

Meanwhile, the public relations departments of the three major health facilities of K-P have claimed that the hospitals have attended to over four thousands patients in OPDs across the three big hospitals, while the Lady Reading Hospital Public relation Officers Muhammad Asim speaking to The Express Tribune stated that the OPD was running smoothly  in the hospital and till the filing of this report some 2,000 have been attended to while Hayatabad Medical Complex has attended to 1,332 patients at their OPDs .

Published in The Express Tribune, May 19^th, 2019.