Pressing for demands: Patients suffer amid AJK doctors’ strike

Doctors demand raise in salary, at par with their counterparts working in provincial and federal government hospitals.

MIRPUR:

Young doctors associated with public hospitals in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) continued their indefinite strike to pressurise the government into accepting their demands.

The doctors demand a raise in salary, at par with their counterparts working in the provincial and federal government hospitals in Pakistan. They had gone on strike a week back on the call of AJK Young Doctors Association to press the government for early acceptance of their demands. The doctors continued to boycott their duties in emergency units as well leading to agonising conditions for patients.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 7^th, 2012.