Young doctors, under the banner of Young Doctors Association (YDA) Punjab, continued their strike in Out Patients Departments (OPDs) for the 13th consecutive day on Monday.
The YDA Punjab continued its strike at all OPDs of all hospitals in Punjab, including Lahore, to exert pressure on the government to reconsider their demands regarding their service structure, release of their colleagues and to end ‘victimization of the young doctors’.
Although the young doctors continued treatment of patients at makeshift OPD camps set up outside hospitals, the patients suffered heavily. Senior doctors, on the other hand, were busy providing treatment to patients at OPD wards of their respective hospitals.
The relatives of patients demanded the government to take strict action against all doctors on strike as they very denying timely treatment to the patients at OPDs.
The Punjab Health Department did not initiate dialogue with the young doctors to resolve the matter and to restore the normal functioning of hospitals in the larger interest of the people.
