Striking doctors to get jail, cancelled degrees: Rana Sanullah
LAHORE: Punjab law minister, Rana Sanaullah, has said that the degrees of protesting doctors would be cancelled on top of sending them to jail for the defying their duties, which they should have not abandoned to the peril of poor patients, Geo News reported.
LAHORE: Punjab law minister, Rana Sanaullah, has said that the degrees of protesting doctors would be cancelled on top of sending them to jail for the defying their duties, which they should have not abandoned to the peril of poor patients, Geo News reported.
Denying the striking doctors any leniency henceforth, he said that the Punjab government could just not let the hospitals fail to do what they were supposed to do.
“The show must go on, hospitals must serve the masses, that’s what they are meant to do, no one would be allowed to jeopardize it”, said he.
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Details of terminated doctors’ released
LAHORE: Geo News has acquired the details of the doctors terminated by the Punjab government for staying absent without leave and persuading their fellows not to render their services in the outpatient departments.
According to details, out of 24 doctors terminated eight are from Services Hospital, one each from MAO Hospital, PIC, and Gangaram Hospital, while two are associated with General Hospital, and three each with Jinnah Hospital, and Benazir Bhutto Hospital Rawalpindi.
Earlier dozens of doctors were arrested after Punjab police stormed into the Services Hospital Lahore at a time when the protesting doctors’ emergency meeting was underway.
The services of twenty-four doctors who actively participated in the strike were terminated.
According to the details, police entered the hostel after busted through the doors of the hostel and arrested many doctors who were holding emergency meeting to chalk out their future course of action.
Several doctors managed to escape by jumping out of the hostel’s windows.
Earlier, Punjab Health Department announced to blacklist the candidature of all the doctors on strike for government jobs if they didn’t end strike and resume their duties from Monday.
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‘Protesting doctors being blacklisted’
LAHORE: Punjab Health Department is in the process of blacklisting the candidature of all the doctors on strike for government jobs, Geo News reported Sunday.
The decision came hours after the talks between the protesting Young Doctor’s Association (YDA) and senior doctors failed to reach any understanding.
According to the spokesman of Punjab Health Department, the records of young doctors on strike are also being sent to the Britihsh College of Physicans and Embassies.
Earlier, the YDA general body had warned to surround the CM House on July 5 if their demands were not met.
The young doctors have put forth three conditions to end their strike continuing since June 18. They also demanded that Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif should assure them of fulfilling their conditions.
Their demands include appointment of Medical Officer directly in Grade 18, stipend of post-graduate equal to that of Medical Officer, and matching the health professional allowance with basic pay.
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Doctors forced the govt to take action
LAHORE: Advisor of Punjab Chief Minister on Health, Khawaja Salman Rafiq, has said the striking young doctors left the government with no choice but to take action against them, Geo News reported.
Talking to media, he said that the Punjab government honesty pleaded with the strikers, tried to make them realize that poor patients’ lives were at stake, but they would not budge.
“Our entreaties fell on deaf ears, the hospitals have been paralyzed for thirteen days, we had to do something, I don’t know why couldn’t they understand it were peoples lives they were playing with”, said the advisor.
He said that the doctors were apprehended preemptively so that they could be barred from shutting down the indoor department, which we had learnt from reliable sources, was their next move planned.
He once again appealed to the striking doctors to return to their respective wards and start performing their duties on moral as well professional grounds.
On the other hand the senior doctors have reached the hospitals to take care of patients in the absence of protesting juniors.
Source: thenews.com.pk
