Service structure: YDA to block Jail Road today

LAHORE:

The Young Doctors Association (YDA) Punjab is to hold protests on Thursday (today) to press for a new service structure.

YDA chapters plan to hold protests in front of teaching hospitals after which they will join the main protest in front of Services Hospital on Jail Road. “We will not give up our democratic right to protest. The Lahore High Court has not asked us to do so,” said Dr Javed Zaheer, YDA Jinnah Hospital head.

“We are waiting peacefully for the announcement of a new service structure. The government has not held a meeting on the issue for two weeks now,” he said. He said the next protest by the YDA would take place on September 19.

YDA Punjab President Dr Hamid Butt said the two-hour protest on Thursday would start at Jail Road at 10am. He said routine hospital affairs would not be disturbed. “We will also ensure that no ambulance gets stuck in a traffic jam near Services Hospital and the Punjab Institute of Cardiology,” Dr Butt added.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 13^th, 2012.