Tag: Doctors

LAHORE - Pakistan Medical Society (PMS) organised a seminar in connection with the World Health Day at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) on Thursday. World Health Organization Punjab Operation Officer Dr Babar Alam, while addressing the seminar, said that the use of antibiotic medicines should be controlled.
He said the government along with different organisations will have to start an awareness program to better the treatment methods. He said that the use

LAHORE - The government and the young doctors set aside their egos as the Young Doctors Association (YDA) finally ended its strike after a much-awaited meeting with Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday, bringing an end to 37 days of suffering for the patients.
In a high-level meeting at Chief Minister's Secretariat, Shahbaz ordered the formation of a 6-member committee, which would submit its recommendations on raising the salaries of doctors and solutions to their

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 YDA has expressed its reservation regarding 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 newly elected doctors in

ISLAMABAD - Learning its lesson from the young doctors' strike and on the special directive of the presidency, the Ministry of Health has moved a summary to the prime minister office for starting evening classes in all medical colleges to raise the number doctors.
Officials from the health ministry said this here at the meeting of National Assembly Standing Committee on Health on Thursday. Secretary Incharge Health Nargis Sethi while briefing the meeting said that in first phase

LAHORE - Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad is responsible for "mishandling" the young doctors' issue through "bureaucratic control", as the matter could have been amicably resolved by negotiations on various levels, sources in the civil bureaucracy told Pakistan Today on Wednesday.
Sources privy to recent developments said various channels could have been used to engage the doctors on strike and bring one of the worst strikes in the health sector's history to an amicable

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - The federal government engaged the Young Doctors Association (YDA) on Tuesday, agreeing to accept their demands in a political move to exploit the situation in Punjab where doctors and provincial authorities have been at loggerheads for over a month now.
The strike announced by the Punjab chapter of the YDA swelled in ranks as senior doctors from Punjab and other provinces also expressed solidarity with them, while the young doctors ended their strike in

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD - The Punjab government late on Monday sacked 13 more young doctors for participating in the ongoing strike, while the Health Department recruited 465 doctors to restore medical care to patients in a majority of teaching hospitals across the province.
The Punjab government has decided not to bow to the demands of the Young Doctors' Association. The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has called an emergency convention of their office-bearers at the district level

LAHORE - The PML-N and PPP are fueling their political rivalry on doctors' strike, a trauma for patients and ordeal for medical practitioners. Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has announced the launching of an FIR against Raja Riaz for instigating the doctors on strike.
Rana Sanaullah said that Raja Riaz should convince the doctors to perform their duties rather than inciting them to violation of law and order in the province. He said that Raja Riaz was serving his vested

LAHORE - The standoff between the Punjab government and young doctors on strike took an ominous turn after the Health Department terminated 144 doctors on Sunday including 60 postgraduate trainee and house officers, Young Doctors Association (YDA) President Dr Hamid Butt among them.
The list comprised around 84 doctors, including one assistant professor, who were terminated under the Punjab Employees Efficiency and Disciplinary Act. On the other hand, the government turned away

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD/KARACHI - A very low turnout of patients was observed at all major hospitals across Punjab, as the Young Doctors Association (YDA) continued the strike on Saturday.
Senior doctors also told their institutional heads about their "inability" to manage wards without young doctors, only adding to the miseries of patients, Pakistan Today has learnt. Per directions from the Health Department, heads of teaching hospitals directed senior doctors to ensure "smooth

ISLAMABAD - Calling the demands of young doctors legitimate, the Upper House on Saturday said the salaries of doctors were too less and should be increased.
Speaking on a point of order, Leader of the Opposition Wasim Sajjad said doctors' demands were legitimate and the government, particularly the Punjab government, was not tackling the problem seriously. He advised the Punjab government to avoid highhandedness in dealing with the problem, as doctors were educated people and use

LAHORE - Additional District and Sessions Judge Ameer Khan on Saturday summoned the Naseerabad Police Station house officer on April 9 on a petition seeking registration of murder cases against office-bearers of the Young Doctors Association (YDA).
Advocate Ishtiaq Ahmed Chaudhry filed the petition submitting that dozens of patients, including children, had lost their lives due to the doctor's strike. The petitioner said that doctors, on call of the YDA, had been observing a

LAHORE - A woman died in a private hospital of Johar Town on Saturday due to alleged negligence of doctors. Family of the woman held a protest and resorted to violence. Police soon controlled the situation and shifted the body to the morgue for autopsy. The victim's family requested registration of a first information report (FIR) against doctors. According to details, Umar, a resident of Wassanpura, brought his wife Yasmeen to the hospital two days ago. Yasmeen was given an injection

LAHORE - Condemning the five-weeks long doctors' strike, eight religious parties on Saturday asked the Punjab government to take punitive steps against doctors.
In a joint meeting held at the Data Darbar, leaders of the Aalmi Tanzeem-e-Ahle Sunnat, Sunni Ulema Pakistan, Pakistan Muslim Front, Tehreek-e-Namoos-e-Risalat, Mashaikh Ahle Sunnat Pakistan, Anjuman Aashqan-e-Rasool, Markazi Milad Committee and Aalmi Jamaat-e-Ahle Sunnat demanded the immediate removal of doctors from

LAHORE - The All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) on Saturday condemned the Punjab government's attitude towards protesting doctors and demanded the provincial government to accept the demands of the doctors. APML Secretary General Barrister Saif and APML Spokesman Fawad Chaudhry met a delegation of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) and termed their demands as genuine. Fawad said that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has proved to be a failed administrator due to his poor

LAHORE - The Punjab government has given a 24-hour ultimatum to young doctors to call off their strike or face action under the Compulsory Service Act, a cabinet meeting decided late on Friday.
Terming the services of doctors attached to the Health Department "essential", the government decided further that police be deployed at hospitals to ensure their smooth operation. "It has been decided to ensure that those who want to work should keep working and no one should be allowed

LAHORE - The Young Doctors Association called off its strike in all hospitals throughout the Punjab on Thursday but more than 23 patients expired over the last 36 hours due to doctors' absence from their duties. The doctors had refused to attend emergency, indoor and outdoor patients as part of their strike, resulting in multiple casualties in different hospitals. Young doctors while addressing a press conference said that they had called off their strike in public hospitals and now