Lahore – The Punjab Young Doctors Association’s (PYDA) General Council (GC) decided after observing a three-day strike in outdoor patient departments (OPDs) of all city hospitals to resume OPD service not in the hospitals but on the roads adjacent to the hospitals on Friday.
All PYDA presidents have been directed to start the OPD service on the roads from Monday till the PYDA’s next decision. The PYDA General Council said they did not want poor patients to suffer. This decision was made keeping in mind the patients that arrived at closed OPDs because of young doctors’ protest for a pay-raise.
PYDA has decided that the patients should not suffer from the brawl between young doctors and the government. PYDA says still stands firm on the pay-raise issue and the strike was still intact but the doctors should not let poor patients suffer. They said that the OPDs would be reopened on Monday but on the roads adjacent to hospitals.
Prior to this, PYDA and the Punjab Health Department had an inconclusive meeting. Health Secretary Fawad Hasan said that doctors’ pay would be raised as soon as the country comes out of the current economic crisis.
