Tag: Doctors

The Sindh High Court (SHC) ordered the provincial government on Wednesday to appoint 100 female and four male doctors on contract basis in the...

The strike of the Provincial Doctors’ Association (PDA) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was going aggressive with every passing day as, on the third day of...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday issued notices for May 31 to the Punjab government, Young Doctors’ Association (YDA) and others on a...

The Punjab government on Monday approved an Rs 5.2 billion package for doctors, paramedics and staff nurses by increasing their salaries but the Young...

The Punjab government on Sunday agreed to issue the special pay protection notification within three days and doctors will be entitled to old benefits...

A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday challenging the Young Doctors Association's (YDA) announcement to hold a strike from...

Doctors’ associations have split over resolving various issues facing the medical profession, despite having a common agenda of getting a special salary package for...

The Young Doctors Association’s (YDA) Punjab chapter turned political on Wednesday, as it gathered the critics of the Punjab government and its policies under...

Following in the footsteps of their Punjab’s counterparts, three main hospitals of Peshawar and Ayub Medical Complex, Abbottabad of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province have gone on...

QUETTA - The Balochistan chapter of Pakistan Medical Association Wednesday threatened that all the doctors working at government-run hospitals would tender their resignations in protest over the abduction and murder of their colleague Dr. Mumtaz Haider. They however said that final decision in this raged would be taken by the PMA's academic council meeting being held on April 22. Citing poor security for doctors, the PMA members said they felt insecure while performing their duty. The

LAHORE - Pakistan Pharmacist Association (PPA) demanded federal government to award pharmacists Special Pay Scale (SPS) 9. They rallied from the Punjab University (PU) Old Campus to the GPO on Monday, protesting that the government had awarded SPS 9 to doctors but had discriminated against pharmacists by only awarding them SPS 7. A number of pharmacists from different public sector hospitals participated in the rally, headed by Prof Dr Bashir Ahmed.
PPA appealed to the prime

SYDNEY - Australia said Monday it will donate Aus$25,000 ($26,400) to the Royal Flying Doctor Service as a wedding gift to Prince William and Kate Middleton. The couple, who marry on April 29, have asked that anyone intending to send them presents instead give the money to charity. "The gift was decided following a request from the happy couple to donate to one of their nominated charities instead of a wedding gift," said Prime Minister Julia Gillard's office. "The Royal Flying Doctor

LAHORE - The Health Department and the hospitals' administrations have yet to decide if they should pay salaries to the young doctors for the period they were on strike. While Mayo Hospital withheld the doctors' last month salaries, Allama Iqbal Medical College (AIMC) and Services Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS) not only paid salaries to medical officers, registrar and senior registrar but also to house officers and post-graduate trainee doctors.
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ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said the new service structure package for the doctors was aimed at providing them better facilities so that they can serve the masses. The prime minister made a policy statement on floor of the national assembly, saying that the package would provide them job security and ensure regular progress in their career.
He said a committee has been constituted to improve the service structure and it would submit its report in next

LAHORE - Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Punjab chapter on Tuesday welcomed Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani's statement regarding the special pay scales for doctors. PMA Punjab President Dr Ashraf Nizami and other office-bearers said that it was a longstanding demand of the PMA Central Council that doctors should be brought out from the National Pay Scale and a special salary package be announced for them according to their professional capabilities.
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LAHORE - Various teaching hospitals of Punjab are returning to normal after a 38 days strike called by young doctors demanding a substantial increase in their salaries came to end. Patients were treated in emergencies and outdoor patients departments while major and minor surgical procedures were also performed by doctors expect at Services Hospital and Children's Hospital, where a number of patients faced a lot of difficulties during treatment.
According to sources, around 2,200

LAHORE - The fate of doctors recently recruited by the Punjab Health Department to run hospitals in the absence of striking doctors hangs in the balance, as the Young Doctors' Association (YDA) has expressed its reservation on their future, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The Health Department appointed 617 doctors to run the emergency departments of various hospitals, while the young doctors were on a strike. However, the appointments are not regular, putting the fate of all these