YDA Protests: Pervaiz Elahi backs doctors’ campaign
YDA also called on Jamaat-i-Islami leader Liaqat Baloch, who too extended his support to the association.
LAHORE:
Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has voiced support for the doctors’ protests for a revised service structure and blamed the provincial government for strikes at public hospitals.
A delegation of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) Punjab called on the former chief minister on Sunday to brief him about their campaign of protests, said YDA Punjab’s media secretary Dr Muddassir Razzaq Khan.
He said that Elahi had backed the doctors. “He said that if the Punjab government had acted in time to give doctors a proper service structure, the situation would have been different and doctors would never have gone on strike,” Dr Khan said.
He said the YDA was planning to contact the leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party, the Tehreek-i-Insaaf and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz to inform them about their demands before November 7, when the association is planning to hold a sit-in at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat.
Dr Khan said that the YDA had also called on Jamaat-i-Islami leader Liaqat Baloch, who had also extended his support to the association.
The government and doctors’ groups associations are in talks on the service structure. Though agreement has been reached on some issues, the parties still differ on promotions and starting grades for new doctors.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 21st, 2012.
Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has voiced support for the doctors’ protests for a revised service structure and blamed the provincial government for strikes at public hospitals.
A delegation of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) Punjab called on the former chief minister on Sunday to brief him about their campaign of protests, said YDA Punjab’s media secretary Dr Muddassir Razzaq Khan.
He said that Elahi had backed the doctors. “He said that if the Punjab government had acted in time to give doctors a proper service structure, the situation would have been different and doctors would never have gone on strike,” Dr Khan said.
He said the YDA was planning to contact the leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party, the Tehreek-i-Insaaf and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz to inform them about their demands before November 7, when the association is planning to hold a sit-in at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat.
Dr Khan said that the YDA had also called on Jamaat-i-Islami leader Liaqat Baloch, who had also extended his support to the association.
The government and doctors’ groups associations are in talks on the service structure. Though agreement has been reached on some issues, the parties still differ on promotions and starting grades for new doctors.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 21st, 2012.