After eight-week-long strike, out patient departments in various hospitals of the Balochistan resumed their operations as doctors called off their protest.
Although attendance of doctors at various OPDs was still thin, patients have heaved a sigh of relief with the resumption of medical services.
Doctors at Civil Hospital, Quetta and other government hospital went on strike on October 17 in protest against kidnapping of their fellow colleagues in the province.
On Thursday, the provincial government constituted a two-member committee which in its meeting agreed to withdraw suspension of doctors, resumption of their salaries and withdrawal of cases against doctors following which doctors decided to resume their duties.
Following the decision, medical services resumed today at Civil Hospital, Quetta and Bolan Medical Complex along with other hospitals of the province but attendance of doctors is still thin.
According to a spokesman of Pakistan Medical Association (Balochistan) all doctors will resume their duties after a general body meeting of the association today. All doctors are present in emergency wards, he added.