Pakistan Medical Association (Punjab Chapter) leader Dr Shahid Rao has said: "we had planned to agitate against the registration of murder cases against the doctors for their inadvertently mistake or human error and leaving the quacks unpunished."
He said that now we have decided to put off our protest as the chairman of the Chief Minister's Task Force on Spurious Drugs, Dr Saeed Elahi, has assured that the government would not register cases against doctors under Section 302, but if found responsible for negligence, they would have to face legal proceedings.
Dr Shahid Rao said Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif had also met with leaders and office-bearers of PMA and different bodies of doctors to clear the misunderstanding about the Healthcare Commission. Mian Shahbaz Sharif, according to him, said the medical profession carried great respect and honour and doctors were the cream of the nation, therefore, no one could think of insulting or humiliating them.
However, there was a need to regulate the public and private medical institutions with a view to ensuring provision of trained and qualified staff, latest diagnostic equipment, and treatment facilities to prevent accidents (cases of negligence) to save patients from unnecessary disabilities or deaths in hospitals across the province, he said.
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