Medical health professionals continue to complain about unresolved security issues. PHOTO: FILE
In a show of protest against the government for failing to recover kidnapped doctors, Provincial Doctors Association (PDA) along with other medical associations boycotted outpatient departments (OPD) on Tuesday. Instead they tended to patients in tents set up on the premises of Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC).
In a consistent back and forth between the provincial government and protesting doctors, medical health professionals continue to complain about unresolved security issues.
PDA Chairman Dr Shah Sawar said a committee of senior and junior doctors had earlier set a one-week deadline for the safe recovery of the abducted doctors, but the government failed to do so. “The deadline expired today.”
All private practices in Dabgari Gardens were also suspended to show solidarity with the abducted doctors.
Alternative arrangements at HMC included the establishment of six tent OPDs for ENT, gynaecology, gastroenterology, medical, paediatrics and cardiology.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 27th, 2013.
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