PESHAWAR: Patients continued to suffer as the protesting doctors and health workers kept health services suspended for second consecutive day in the three tertiary care hospitals here on Thursday.
Frustrated by the stiff attitude of the protesting health workers, the government in consultations with legal experts and medical directors and hospital directors of the tertiary care hospitals decided to take action against the protesting doctors, paramedics, nursing staff and sanitation workers as per law if they didn’t restore services in their respective health institutions from Thursday.
The Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) administration had issued show-cause notices to 15 doctors and returned services of four more head nurses to the provincial Health Department for further posting.
The health workers had been on strike on the call of Health Employees Coordination Council (HEEC) of LRH, Young Doctors Association (YDA), a two-member Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) in the province, Malgari Doctoran of the Awami National Party, Islamic Doctors Forum (IDF) affiliated with Maulana Fazlur Rahman’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA) and the Paramedics Associations.
