The Punjab government has warned young doctors, who are threatening to lock the indoors and emergencies, to desist from it as the government would not allow them to do so. The public opinion is also building against this inhuman behaviour of doctors’ who are indulging in strikes and closure of hospitals.
Parliamentary Secretary Health, Punjab, Dr Saeed Elahi, along with provincial Secretary Health, Fawad Hassan Fawad, and Special Secretary Health Waseem Mukhtar, while talking to journalists here on Tuesday said that a small number of doctors were coercing other doctors to go on strike. They were in fact rendering no service to humanity, rather they were jeopardising lives of thousands of patients just to press for their demands.
“Such elements are endangering the lives of thousands of patients by creating hurdles in the working of hospitals and they will not be spared and no one will be allowed to play with the lives of the patients.”
Dr Saeed Elahi disclosed that the government has given free hand to the principals and medical superintendents of teaching hospitals to cope with the doctors, who were on strike and causing hindrance in the functioning of the hospitals.
On this occasion, Fawad Hassan Fawad told the journalists that more than a dozen meetings had been held with the representatives of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) and they were fully informed about the current financial position and they were told that the Chief Minister, Punjab was in favour of increasing the salaries of doctors but it would be possible only when sufficient resources would be available.
He opined that the demand to raise the salaries forthwith was unrealistic and the doctors should wait for the next budget in this regard. He said that the government did not want to stop the doctors to use their democratic right but warned that the hospitals and thousands of patients admitted there could not be left unattended.
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