Four PIMS doctors fired for vandalism

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Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) administration on Monday terminated four young doctors involved in vandalism at the hospital.
On October 20, two doctors were injured when rival groups attacked each other over a strike call given against the appointment of the hospital’s new executive director.
During the brawl, furniture and windowpanes in the executive director’s office were also broken.
The Islamabad Young Doctors Association had blamed outsiders for damaging the public property. One security official in the hospital had also said doctors belonging to one of the groups, who had come from outside, damaged the property.
Earlier, an inquiry has found four junior doctors guilty of vandalism at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) about three weeks back, Dawn has learnt reliably.
According to officials, the Ministry of Capital Administration and Development (CAD) held the inquiry and declared three house officers and a medical officer of the hospital guilty of damaging public property and interrupting routine work at the hospital.