Tag: Doctors

1,800 senior doctors to be regularised

As approved by the Punjab chief minister (CM), regularisation of 1800 senior doctors is being done by the Punjab Health Department on merit in...

Doctors Hospital GM’s appearance exemption plea dismissed

Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Mahmood Maqbool Bajwa on Saturday dismissed Doctors Hospital General Manager (GM) Ziaul Hassan Bokhari’s application seeking exemption from personal...

Commission on doctors’ strike formed, LHC told

The Punjab government has set up a high-level commission, headed by Justice (r) Saeedur Rehman Farrukh, to fix responsibility for the loss of precious...

Young doctors protest against Health Ordinance

Young Doctors Association (YDA) on Sunday staged a protest demonstration, rejecting the Essential Health Service Ordinance of 2011 and warned of a long march...

Doctors close OPDs across country to show solidarity with Quetta’s doctors

Showing solidarity with Quetta’s doctors against brutal action by police on Tuesday, Out-patient Departments (OPDs) in major government hospitals remained close across the country...

Police injures 8 young doctors, arrests 72

Eight young doctors were injured as a result of aerial firing and shelling by the police after a brawl between Police and Young Doctors...

Doctors get a healthy raise in allowances

The Sindh government has allocated Rs 2.9 million in the annual budget 2011-12 to support the families of doctors, who became the victims of...

100 PGMI doctors pass examinations

Around 100 doctors of the Post Graduate Medical Institute (PGMI) were declared successful by the University of Health Sciences (UHS) on Saturday in various...

Young doctors strike continue in Quetta

Despite sacking of 127 doctors by the Balochistan government, young doctors here continued their strike on Friday. According to the details, young doctors in four...

Balochistan govt fires another 61 doctors

The Balochistan government has issued orders of suspension of another 61 doctors increasing the number of sacked doctors to 127 in just two days....

YDA announces Black Day for Baloch doctors

The Young Doctors Association (YDA) Pakistan on Tuesday announced to observe a black day against the termination of 61 doctors by the Balochistan chief...

Balochistan govt sacks 66 doctors

The government of Balochistan on Monday dismissed 66 government doctors from service for being on strike for over two months. The action was taken after...

KP doctors end strike

Provincial Doctors Association (PDA) Monday called off its strike after two weeks of protest on Monday. The doctors had been demanding perks equal to...

Health Department schedules doctors’ regularisation

The Punjab Health Department has issued a schedule for the implementation of the Punjab chief minister’s summary regarding the promotion/regularization of medical officers with...

‘90% doctors not diagnosing asthma properly’

A simple gauge called peak flow meter is required to make a confirmed diagnosis of asthma but 90 percent of doctors diagnosing and treating...

Observing strikes is not doctors’ way: AQ Khan

Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan Qadir has condemned strikes by the doctors, saying such protests only affected the patients. He was addressing as...

Teachers follow in doctors’ footsteps

Following in footsteps of the Young Doctors’ Association (YDA), different teacher unions of Punjab staged protests at the Punjab Civil Secretariat and 90 Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam...