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LAHORE - The Punjab government had decided to increase doctors' salary but young doctors refused to serve in public hospitals throughout the Punjab. The government instead of following 100 percent demands of the doctors only agreed to give a 15 percent increase in all categories.
Punjab Chief Ministers's Senior Adviser Sardar Zulifqar Ahmed Khosa at 90 Shahrah-e-Qaid-e-Azam held a meeting with young doctors on Wednesday. The meeting's temperature remained high and both sides

LAHORE - Hundreds of patients suffered as the strike of Punjab's doctors continues for an increase in salaries on Thursday.
The ongoing strike has completed a month of protests in which the Young Doctors Association (YDA) demonstrated outside hospitals and administered treatment to patients in medical camps there.
Routine duty in several teaching hospitals of the province, including those in Lahore, is suspended due to the strike.
The YDA said the strike will continue

LAHORE - The Young Doctors Association (YDA) has decided not to attend to emergency patients in public sector hospitals and has announced penalising the doctors who dare disobey the announcement.
"The doctors will not even attend to government servants, police officials or secretariat employees. No young doctor will offer his services in emergency and if any doctor violated the order, he will be punished by YDA office bearers," said YDA President Dr Hamid Butt.
YDA has

LAHORE - Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has rejected reservations by some groups of doctors about the approval of the summary of promotion/regularisation of 1800 senior doctors having postgraduate qualification of FCPS, MRCP, and FRCS as assistant professors, senior registrars and district specialists by the Punjab chief minister.
PMA officials said that the summary's approval and implementation will ensure that 1800 senior doctors awaiting regularisation for last 13 years

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) was informed on Friday that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has given approval for creating 198 new posts in the Punjab Health Department for regularisation of assistant professors and senior medical officers who were working on contract basis. Justice Umer Ata Bandial was hearing the petition of assistant professors and senior medical officers seeking their regularisation in the health department, which was filed through their counsel Dr

LAHORE - Punjab young doctors' protest entered 25th day on Friday while the patients were suffering lot of problem because of the strike.
Protesting doctors in Punjab have shut the outdoor services units of their respective hospitals demanding increase in their salaries and are conducting check-ups of their patients on the camps situated on roads.
On one side, the government is so angry upon the behavior of the protesting doctors, and on the other side, the private hospitals

ISLAMABAD - The Young Doctors Association (YDA) urged the government on Thursday to regularise the services of doctors who were working on contractual basis and induct young doctors in BPS-18 to raise young doctors' pay according to the reservations of National Health Commission (NHC) and Pay and Pension Committee (PPC). Briefing journalists at the National Press Club, (YDA) President Dr Muhammad Ajmal said the doctors were struggling for their rights for last many decades.
The

MANAMA - Some doctors at Bahrain's busiest hospital say they are too scared to return to work for fear of being arrested or harassed after treating wounded protesters during weeks of unrest in the Sunni-ruled kingdom.
Bahraini security forces raided Salmaniya hospital on Wednesday, the day they launched a crackdown that drove mainly Shia protesters off the streets, and removed a handful of tents that opposition activists had set up in the car park. Four doctors, who declined to

LAHORE - All attempts on the part of the Punjab government to placate the striking doctors have failed; not even a special pay allowance of Rs 10,000 to 15,000 for doctors from the 1st of July could convince them to call off their strike.
Zulifqar Khoosa, senior adviser to chief minister, tried to woo the doctors with a lucrative pay package at a meeting on 90 The Mall but doctors were adamant they won't make do with anything less than their demands. Health Secretary Fawad Hassan

LAHORE - A large number of patients and their relatives protested against the negative attitude of doctors who refused to treat them on Friday and they demanded Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad take stern action against the doctors. The patients from all over the province especially Sheikhpura, Gujranwala, Narowal, Kasoor and Sialkot faced a lot of problems because of the young doctors' strike. A retired teacher, Arshad Khokhar, who had come

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday ordered the provincial government to immediately issue appointment orders on contract basis to 42 doctors, who had passed the Sindh Public Service Commission examination three years ago.
The SHC division bench comprising Justice Shahid Anwer Bajwa and Justice Tufail H Ibrahim passed the directive after hearing arguments from both sides. Petitioners Dr Farzana and Dr Nazar Bhagat had filed a constitutional petition through their

LAHORE - The Ministry Of Defense on Thursday informed the Lahore High Court that the case of Jinnah Hospital's missing doctor, Ali Abdullah, has been referred to the Judicial Commission for Missing People (JCMP). Hussain Shahbaz, deputy director legal in the ministry, said this while appearing before the court of Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who was hearing a habeas corpus petition for the recovery of Dr Ali Abdullah from alleged custody of ISI. The officer submitted a written

KARACHI - Expressing concern over the continuing strike of doctors in Punjab, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Wednesday said the legitimate demands of the protesting doctors should be accepted immediately. He said the doctors have been protesting for the past two weeks because of low incomes and problems being faced by them due to the sharp increase in cost of living.
Altaf regretted that the Punjab Government was not doing anything to solve the issue, due

LAHORE - The Punjab government failed to convince the young doctors to withdraw their strike and road blockades near the hospitals and medical colleges on Wednesday.
A high-level meeting headed by the Senior Adviser to Chief Minister Sardar Zulfiqar Khoosa was called by the Punjab government at 90 Shahrah-e-Qaid-e-Azam to convince young doctors and medical associations to end their strike.
Rawalpindi Medical College Principal Afzal Farooqui, Allama Iqbal Medical College

LAHORE - After its failure to convince doctors to call-off their ongoing strike, the Punjab government has decided to adopt a three-pronged strategy to deal with young doctors demanding an increase in their salaries, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The new strategy conceived by the health department includes some extreme measures from the Punjab government which appears to be running out of patience. In first step, on the advice of the health department, medical colleges or hospital

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) chief justice (CJ) on Monday sought a reply from the Punjab government within two weeks on a petition seeking action against doctors for observing strikes by endangering the life of patients. Journalist Manzoor Qadir filed the petition submitting that the doctors were violating their code of professional conduct by observing strikes. He said that the strikes were causing a lot of problems to citizens who were being denied their fundamental right of

FAISALABAD - The Punjab government has decided to take strict action against the young doctors who have intensified their strike and have threatened to boycott even emergency wards till the acceptance of their demands.
The Young Doctors Association (YDA) continued their strike at Allied Hospital and DHQ Hospital Faisalabad for the third consecutive week to press their demand for pay rise. However, as a matter of good gesture, the young doctors on strike who are staying outside