Federal Government Health Employees Association (FGHEA) on Monday organised a rally from PIMS to the National Press Club and protested against the move to privatise the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS).
Doctors, nursing staff, paramedics and employees of the three government allied hospitals, including Pakistan Institute of Medical Science (PIMS), National Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (NIRM) and Policlinic Hospital Islamabad participated in the protest demonstration outside the national press club to stop the privatisation of PIMS.
It is pertinent to mention that earlier the National Assembly had passed Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Medical University (PIMS) Bill 2013 despite a strong protest from opposition benches. The bill aims to upgrade the country’s biggest medical facility, the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), into Islamabad’s first ever public medical university.
It would also transfer the Faculty of Medicine at the Quaid-e-Azam University to the newly founded institute.
The protesters carried banners and placards inscribed with slogans against the privatization of PIMS to save the healthcare of the poor people.
The protesting doctors and paramedic staffs chanted slogans against the government amid the fiery speeches delivered by prominent leaders of the doctors associations and the CDA Labour Union Chairman Chaudhry Yaseen Malik.
Manzoor Abass said the government had decided to end the medical facility of the poor people who were already living in miserable conditions and this act would add to their miseries.
The CDA labour union chairman lamented that the Pakistan People’s Party wrongly claimed to be a democratic party and that the party had been made for the poor people and labourers.
“Why is this people’s government taking such decisions that are harmful for the poor of the country?” he said.
Mazoor Abass announced that they would stage a protest demonstration outside the parliament house if there demands were not met.
The protesting doctors and paramedic staff said that they had come out for the continuity of free medical health care facility of the poor masses.
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