Alternate arrangments
LAHORE, April 2: The critical care departments of all the major hospitals in the city partially functioned on Saturday.
The patients were provided treatment amid tight security measures as heavy contingents of police were deputed at the health institutions to avoid wrath of the doctors on strike.
The Punjab government took various steps for alternative healthcare arrangements at the city`s teaching hospitals, including posting of over 100 doctors of the City District Government of Lahore health facilities and other districts.
Besides, the health institutions also made emergency recruitment of over 50 doctors.
Though senior doctors discharged duties in the absence of the agitating young doctors, they disappeared soon leaving the patients again at the mercy of striking doctors at some teaching hospitals.
(read last sentence with a pinch of salt jurnalists at work here)
The health department directed the heads of all the health facilities that no holiday would be observed on Sunday (today).
The Young Doctors Association`s Punjab chapter continued strike by withdrawing all kinds of services including emergency and ICU/CCU at the major hospitals.
The YDA doctors took round of the hospitals in groups led by its office-bearers. They tortured their on-duty colleagues, threatened them with dire consequences and also dragged patients and their attendants for insisting on treatment.(read last sentence with a pinch of salt jurnalists at work here)
Sources said some doctors belonging to Sheikhupura returned without discharging duties at the teaching hospitals after the YDA leaders threatened them with dire consequences for providing treatment to the patients.(
These peple cant stand with doctors when needed what kind of professionals are they.....atleast learn from journalists....even when one is slapped all group together and make a breaking news)
Of the newly-recruited doctors, thirteen were employed by Jinnah Hospital, 25 by Services Hospital and 22 new doctors were hired by Lahore General Hospital.
Executive District Officer (Health) Dr Umer Farooq told Dawn that some 25 doctors were transferred from the district and tehsil headquarters hospitals, and basic health units of Sheikhupura and Kasur districts and appointed at the teaching hospitals of the city.
Similarly, he said, more than 100 hospitals of the CDGL also discharged duties at the Punjab health department`s facilities.
Allama Iqbal Medical College Principal Prof Dr Javed Akram said most recruitments were made of those doctors who passed MBBS from
private medical colleges.
He said of the 13 new doctors, three were women who had been posted at emergency, gynaecology and paediatric departments of the hospital. ( journalists should protest for putting lives in danger at the hands of inexperienced doctors )
Dr Akram said 93 patients were attended at the emergency department by the doctors. He further claimed that the OPD department of the Jinnah Hospital was also made functional after 32 days of the strike, where some 92 patients were looked after.
Meanwhile, the health secretary announced that the salaries of the young doctors had been increased and a decision in this regard would be implemented with effect from July 1.
He said Rs12,000 raise would be given to House Officers (HOs) and Rs20,000 to the Postgraduate Trainees. The YDA, however, rejected the raise as they described it as a conspiracy hatched by the Punjab government to divide the doctors.
Alternate arrangement works at hospitals | Newspaper | DAWN.COM
you are running away from answering my question. You even dont know about the exact demands of protesting doctors and just posting for the same of posting.
after getting 1st aid from that hospital we shifted him to private hospital just bcoz of fukin behaviour of docs , i can imagine what u guys do with poor people how u ppl treat them 
In my college it was 3,000 during internship.....
