Service Structure: YDA sit-in in front of CM’s Secretariat on November 7

YDA to call on several people including politicians to garner support, after Eid.

LAHORE:

The Young Doctors Association (YDA) Punjab is mobilising doctors from across the province to attend a long march and a sit-in in front of the Chief Minister’s Secretariat on November 7.

YDA Punjab Information Secretary Dr Mudassir Razaq Khan told The Express Tribune that after Eid, the YDA would call on several people including politicians to garner support.

Among them is Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan. “The meeting with him has been confirmed.”

He declined to divulge the exact date.

“We will brief him about our struggle and efforts for the service structure for young doctors and ask for his support,” he added.

Dr Khan said the YDA would also call on Governor Sardar Latif Khosa. “Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan has also confirmed our meeting with him. We will seek his support for our cause,” he said.

“The YDA Punjab is calling on all political parties and civil society activists. We will also try to call on Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) head Nawaz Sharif. We think the Punjab government is being run by bureaucrats who aren’t loyal to the PML-N and are following somebody else’s agenda. The bureaucrats are creating rifts between doctors and the PML-N. So far the PML-N is the only party that hasn’t confirmed a meeting with the YDA leadership. If we don’t get any response from them, we will write an open letter to Nawaz Sharif and brief him about our struggle for our service structure,” Dr Khan told The Express Tribune.

On November 1, the YDA Ganga Ram Hospital will hold a demonstration. On November 3, the YDA Gujrat and the YDA Gujranwala will hold protests in their respective cities.

The final protests will be held in Lahore on November 5 at the Lahore General Hospital and the Shaikh Zayed Hospital.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 27^th, 2012.