Tag: Doctors

Senior doctors to meet YDA

Strike of Young Doctors is going on for the last 14 days while the senior doctors have started their efforts for interrupting the strike....

Public patience runs out, Army steps in

Sick of the ‘stubborn’ attitude of the young doctors, the patients and their relatives held a protest demonstration against the treatment that was being...

Rana Sana terms protesting doctors’ demands invalid

Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah termed the Young Doctors Association’s (YDA) demands as ‘invalid and uncalled for’. While talking with media here, the minister said...

CM Shahbaz’s adviser urges doctors to end strike

Special Assistant to Chief Minister for Health Khawaja Salman Rafique urged the protesting doctors to tread the path of negotiations instead of strike to...

YDA continues strike on 12th consecutive day

The Young Doctors Association (YDA) continued their strike on 12th consecutive day on Friday in government hospitals across Punjab against the non-acceptance of their...

Doctors on strike

This is apropos of the news item about the strike of Young Doctors in Punjab and the deadlock in negotiations between the government and...

The plight of doctors

I, being a doctor, wish to let you know the bitter realities which are being faced by doctors who are working in PRSP in...

Doctors’ hullabaloo spills out onto the roads!

Young Doctors Association (YDA) Tuesday staged protest demonstration in front of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital to press the government for their service structure. Dozens...

‘Punjab govt is lying about doctors’ salaries’

More than 1000 seats of doctors were lying vacant in Punjab and the Punjab government had failed to hire doctors on these seats despite...

In govt-doctors standoff, it’s the patients who lose

A large number of patients were facing trouble due to non availability of treatment in the government hospitals across the province as Young Doctors...

Too bad doctors you aren’t working in the US

Special Assistant to Chief Minister Punjab on Health Salman Rafique has said that a grade 17 government officers was getting Rs 30,000 whereas a...

Defiant doctors stand by their demands

Pakistani doctors are the most underpaid professionals in the country as the salaries of doctors in Pakistan are less than what doctors earn in...

Dismiss and replace, demand patients of striking doctors

The outpatient departments (OPDs) of the public hospitals of the provincial metropolis literally kept the patients out of the hospitals owing to the young...

Young Doctors’ strike enters 6th day in Punjab

The outpatient departments (OPDs) of public hospitals of the provincial metropolis literally kept the patients out of the hospitals owing to young doctors strike...

Young doctors still on strike for 4th day

The Young Doctors Association (YDA) strike across Punjab against the government’s alleged indifference towards their demand of service structure on Thursday entered its fourth...

Young doctors’ strike enters 4th day

The Young Doctors Association (YDA), Punjab's strike against not getting service structure has entered fourth day on Thursday. The YDA also vowed to extend the...

Young doctors at it again!

The Young Doctor’s Association (YDA) resumed their strike against the provincial government on Monday, ending their month-long hiatus. The doctors, who are pushing...