Service structure: YDA calls partial strike

Protest against the abolition of 192 seats for house officers in different hospitals.


Our Correspondent August 24, 2013
The YDA leaders said the Health Department had agreed in the Service Structure talks to increase the number of seats for house officers. PHOTO: INP/FILE

LAHORE:


Young Doctors Association on Friday held a press conference and protested against the abolition of 192 seats for house officers in different hospitals across the province.


The YDA leaders said the Health Department had agreed in the Service Structure talks to increase the number of seats for house officers to the number of graduating doctors.

“The seats have been increased but the Health Department has abolished 192 seats in hospitals which are not attached to any medical college. These include the Punjab Institute of Cardiology, the Children Hospital Lahore, the Lahore General Hospital and some district headquarters hospitals,” YDA Punjab President Javaid Aheer said at the press conference.

The number of paid house officers slots at hospitals attached with medical colleges have been increased but seats from hospitals without medical schools attached have been deducted. They said this would limit the options available to young graduates.

YDA announced a partial strike at the Outpatient Department (OPD) at the Lahore General Hospital from Monday.

“If the issue is not resolved, the YDA General Council will meet on Wednesday and announce its new strategy will be announced,” Aheer said.

“House officers are the backbone of a hospital. They perform duties round-the-clock and take care of patients at night. Abolishing the seats is great setback to the health structure,” Aheer said.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 24th, 2013.

COMMENTS (1)

SHB | 10 years ago | Reply

Why YDA has to go on strke all the time? There no rational people in the leadership of YDA. Dept of health took the action on some reason. If the hospital is not attached to a teaching institution, then there is no doctor to guide or teach the junior doctor who is called house officer. So dept of health is right in eliminating that position. In USA, same rule is followed. House officer job is called residency. It is available only in those institution, who are attached to medical schools .

Second point is regarding ET . It should not print old pictures. If it does it should write down the date of that picture. This is norm in the western countries for news papers. They must not try to inflame the given situation.we should learn good things from WEST too.

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