Tag: Doctors
PIMS, Polyclinic and NIRM doctors continue strike
The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Polyclinic and the National Institute of Rehabilitative Medicine (NIRM) doctors and staff members continued their strike on...
Medical staff still on strike for revised BPS
The staff of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Poly Clinic and the National Institute of Rehabilitative Medicine observed a complete strike on...
Social Security doctors deprived of announced pay raise
The 1,800 doctors working in the Punjab Social Security Department have been deprived of the pay raise announced by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, despite...
Doctors trying their best to save Pakistani child prodigy
A team of American doctors was taken on board on Monday by the Microsoft Corporation for the treatment of the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified...
KP doctors on strike over cardiologist’s murder
Protesting over the brutal murder of senior cardiologist Dr Jamal Hussain Syed, doctors of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa began on a three-day strike in all...
Police to steer clear of doctors
The Punjab Police inspector general has issued a directive to police officials all over Punjab not to register a police case against a doctor...
LMDC told to raise doctors’ salaries
The Lahore Medical and Dental College (LMDC) administration has ignored the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan’s (CPSP) directives to bring the salaries of...
NA demands probe into Hindu doctors’ killings
Parliamentarians on Tuesday vociferously protested the killings of Hindu doctors in Sindh and demanded a judicial commission or a parliamentary committee to probe the...
SESSI’s medical officers Afghans with fake degrees?
Sindh Labour Minister Amir Nawab has appointed Afghan nationals, possessing fake diplomas from unaccredited institutes of Afghanistan, as medical officers in his department, Pakistan...
Doctors and lawyers dispute nears settlement
A hope of settlement between doctors and lawyers emerged on the 16th day of the strike by doctors of the Sheikh Zayed Hospital (SZH),...
YDA protests cases against SZH doctors
The Young Doctors Association (YDA) threatened on Saturday to shut down the hospitals of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad in protest against...
‘Doctors’ brain drain a shame’
Strongly condemning violence on basis of faith and the recent murder of a Hindu doctor and his two family members, the civil society representatives...
3 Hindu doctors gunned down in Shikarpur
Gunmen shot dead three Hindu doctors in a remote town in Sindh in a dispute over a dancing girl with a local Muslim tribe,...
CM ensures presence of doctors during Eid holidays
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Saturday that a comprehensive plan had been formulated for ensuring presence of consultants and doctors during Eidul...
Patients left stranded as doctors boycott hospitals
The doctors’ strike turned severe on its sixth day as they boycotted all operations in most of the public hospitals of Lahore on Friday...
With medical students suffering, doctors have their own axe to grind
With the chief minister’s plan to open new medical colleges turning out to be a failure, the issue of medical colleges is back in...
Stop registering fake cases, doctors tell police
The city doctors slammed police on Saturday for registering a ‘false’ case against their three colleagues working at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital. The case...
