Paramedics boycott OPDs in govt hospitals

Strike left thousands of needy patients deprived of treatment facilities and other health services


APP November 09, 2022

HYDRABAD:

Paramedical staff boycotted Outdoor Patient Departments (OPDs) in all government hospitals of Hyderabad on Tuesday on the strike call given by the Grand Health Alliance (GHA).

The strike left thousands of needy patients deprived of treatment facilities and other health services.

In their demand to restore Covid-19 risk allowance for the doctors and health department employees, Grand Health Alliance continued their protest and staged a sit-in for restoration of the “Risk Allowance”.

Talking to the media, the GHA office-bearers said that the secretary of health had assured that our demands would be met by November 5 but no decision has so far been taken in this regard.

They warned that the protest movement would continue till the authorities accept our demands. Meanwhile, thousands of patients returned home without getting any treatment due to the OPD boycott.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, November 9th, 2022.

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