LAHORE – The Young Doctors Association (YDA) on Thursday night took back its decision to call off its strike in public hospitals across Punjab. YDA president said the bureaucracy wanted to implement its policy of divide and rule, but doctors stood united and would not back down until the fulfilment of their demands on part of Senior Adviser Sardar Zulfikar Khosa.
He said the government only wanted to increase the salaries of house officers, medical officers and post graduate trainee students, but wanted registrars, senior registrars, associate professors, assistant professors and professors to draw existing salaries. The YDA president said that if the government did not change its attitude, the association would be forced to withdraw their services in not only in outdoor patient departments (OPDs) and indoor patient departments, but in emergency wards as well.
