Senior doctors' of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa demanded of the government to regularise services of their colleagues serving under ad hoc basis in different periphery health facilities and teaching hospitals in the province.
Speaking at a news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Monday, the Provincial Doctors' Association senior vice president, Dr Munir Masood said that they had time and again raise the issues confronting the doctors' community. Despite doctor's protest and agitation, he said the government had least bothered to pay attention towards their demands.
Accompanied by the PDA joint secretary, Peshawar chapter Dr Khalid Farooq, president from Malakand agency, Dr Irfan and other office bearers and doctors', he said that it was prime responsibility of the government to permanent services of all doctors' serving temporary or ad hoc basis, saying that more than 439 doctors' had been appointed under ad hoc basis in the province, many of them served more than 17 years in same grade and near to retirement.
He also expressed concern over not implementation of approved service structure for the doctors' community, demanding of the government to provide them all facilities for provision of better health delivery system. Condemning the introduction of essential service Act, he said the step was totally unconstitutional and unjust with the doctors' community. "We will not accept such legislation, which was against the basic human rights", he warned. He demanded of the government to immediate withdraw the growing unrest among the doctors' community. He warned that if the government was failed to accept their demands, they would compel to extend their protest campaign in the entire province.