The Young Doctors Association (YDA) Punjab set up a hunger strike camp outside Services Hospital to pressurize the government to fulfill their demands.
Around 110 young doctors of the Punjab are present at the hunger strike camp on the service road of Jail Road, in front of Services Hospital.
The protesting doctors demanded the government to implement the service structure for doctors which was approved after a year long struggle on November 7 by the chief minister, health secretary, chief secretary, finance secretary, advisor to CM on health, representatives of the committee from YDA Punjab, Pakistan Medical Association, Medical Teachers Association and the General Cadre Association.
“No clause of this approved service structure has yet been implemented,” a protesting doctor at the hunger strike said. “Our brothers, who are under arrest in Gujranwala should be released. There should be a reversal of departmental victimisation by the Health Department in the form of termination from jobs, suspensions, undue transfers and the sending of letters to harass young doctors who were peacefully protesting by forming OPD camps,” he said. Interestingly, the young doctors also demanded repair of the out-of-order machinery, the commencement of provision of free medicines, free laboratory facilities, free bedding and free operation procedures to the patients present in the public hospitals.
