While the protest of doctors against the Punjab Medical Teaching Institutions (Reforms) Ordinance 2019 is underway, Health department has decided to initiate action against president of Punjab Young Doctors Association Dr Qasim Awan and Secretary General Salman Haseeb for disrupting provision of healthcare forcibly.
The medical superintendent of the Jinnah Hospital complained that the health department high-ups forced their entry, locked the outpatient department (OPD), stopped the doctors from treating patients and hurled threats at the admin officials.
The YDA Punjab, under the banner of the Grand Health Alliance (GHA), was protesting against the promulgation of the Punjab Medical Teaching Institutions (Reforms) Ordinance 2019. They were of the views the government was privatising the public institutions by abolishing the regular services of the employees, including doctors, nurses and paramedics, which they would not accept at any cost. However, the health department rejected the claim of the protesting doctors.
Sources claimed that the YDA leaders were using paramedics and nurses as tool to launch agitation. Due to strike, at various public hospitals across the province, poor patients are suffering as the protestors including the young medics, locked the OPDs, denying treatment to the patients. The situation is also disturbing in major teaching hospitals of Lahore where the YDA is allegedly using tactics to disrupt healthcare.
On the other hand, Principal Post Graduate Medical Institute Prof. Dr. Sardar Muhammad Alfareed Zafar in his supervision undertook 6-C Section Operations of pregnant women which were conducted by the lady doctors in Gynae Ward of Lahore General Hospital.
According to the details, all the women and newly-born babies are healthy and now out of danger. One female was having very complicated surgery which is also now quite normal along with her baby. These all ladies have expressed their special thanks to the Principal Post Graduate Medical Institute and Lahore General Hospital Prof Dr Sardar Muhammad Alfareed Zafar for extending such cooperation which save their and babies lives.
Talking in this regard, medical experts lauded the efforts of the Principal PGMI/LGH and said that the prime responsibility of any doctor is to save the human lives. They said that those who are serving in the health sector should never forget their basic obligations while struggling for their rights. They stressed that one who saves one life actually saves the whole humanity. They said that if Prof Dr Sardar Muhammad Alfareed Zafar did not take such a step well in time then many lives could be in danger which has been saved now.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2019
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