Tag: Doctors
Punjab doctors go on strike for service structure
After a lull of one-and-a-half month, Young Doctors Association (YDA) of Punjab resumed their strike against the provincial government for not proving them the...
Plight of pharmacists
This is apropos of the woes of patients who have to go from pillar to post to search the brands of medicine prescribed by...
Health rights?
Time for a deeper debate on the topic
Some time back a doctor friend, who works at a large public hospital, called us to ask...
General cadre doctors demand more promotion seats
General cadre Doctors’ Association President Dr. Masood Akhtar Sheikh has said that many medical colleges and hospitals had been set up in Punjab since...
Doctors protest violation of posting orders
Pakistan Medical Association (PMA Sindh), Peoples Doctor Forum (PDF) and Sindh Doctors Welfare Association (SDWA) have expressed their concern about alleged unfair posting orders...
Aamir Khan refuses to apologise to doctors
Aamir Khan, who seldom believes in giving clarifications for his actions, has spoken about his stand against the Indian medical fraternity’s demand seeking an...
Doctors demand recruitment in BPS 17 and specialist cadre
The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA Sindh), along with its sister organisations, Sindh Doctors Welfare Association (SDWA) and People's Doctors Forum (PDF) has demanded 5000...
47 posts of consultant doctors vacant in Children’s Hospital
As many as 47 posts of consultant doctors have been lying vacant in Children’s Hospital for the last two years while the response by...
Apologise, doctors tell Aamir Khan
An umbrella body of 21 Indian medical institutions asked Bollywood star Aamir Khan to apologize for accusing doctors of malpractices in his TV talk...
LGH doctors strike against colleague’s murder
Lahore General Hospital Neurosurgery Department doctors observed a black day on Thursday and held a token strike against the brutal murder of Dr Aftab...
Doctors’ bodies demand urgent notification of posting orders
The core committees of Pakistan Medical Association Sindh and Sindh Doctors Action Committee (SDAC) have urged the government to ensure immediate implementation of the...
Missing man’s daughter rejects DNA test by Indian doctors
Raheela Wakeel, daughter of a man who went missing after Samjhota Express bombing, has rejected the results of a DNA test conducted by an...
Doctors remain absent as YDA strike goes provincial
Patients across Punjab continued to suffer after Young Doctors Association (YDA) went on province-wide strike and also boycotted their services at the outpatient departments...
Young doctors continue strike in Lahore
The young doctors continued their strike on Saturday as the patients and attendants continued to suffer due to the unavailability of doctors.
The operations, as...
Doctors from southern Punjab join YDA’s strike
Young doctors from south Punjab on Friday joined the strike being observed at public sector hospitals after the Punjab Young Doctors Association gave the...
Doctors, teachers throw their toys out of the pram
The OPDs of all public hospitals across the provincial metropolitan remained shut on Thursday owing to the strike call given by Punjab Young Doctors’...
Lahore doctors on strike against transfers
The Young Doctors Association (YDA) announced to go on strike against transfers and new appointments, suspending their services in all government hospitals.
In protest against...