Patients continue to suffer on second day of young doctors’ strike

The medics of Young Doctors Associations left the patients suffering at many hospitals across Punjab on the second day of their strike on Wednesday.

The doctors of the association have demanded the health secretary, Najam Ahmad Shah, be removed from his position and the Central Induction Policy, introduced by him, be revoked. They believe that since the health secretary is an engineer he would not be able to relate to or understand issues of the health department.

According to the protesting doctors, Central Induction Policy discriminates between the ones who have graduated from government institutes and those who have received their education from private ones. Since majority of the doctors have graduated from private medical colleges, they want the policy to be revoked and equal system be set for all.

However, the strike has left patients in limbo at many health care facilities across Punjab, including Nishtar Hospital in Multan, Allied Hospital in Faisalabad and Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Rahim Yar Khan.

Moreover, the strike had caused deaths of two patients in Jinnah and Services hospitals of Lahore, it was reported on the first day of the strike on Tuesday. But administrations of the hospitals denied occurrence of any such incident. Besides, it was not ascertained whether the patients were brought dead or died at the medical facility.

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