Doctors observe token protest

LAHORE :The doctors and other medical staff observe token protest for one hour in teaching hospitals of Punjab on Wednesday against lawyers’ alleged highhandedness and manhandling of hospital staff in Punjab Institute of Cardiology the other day.

According to Grand Health Alliance (GHA) Chairman Dr Salman Haseeb, doctors, paramedics, security staff and patients’ attendants participated in the protest in outdoor wards from 11am to 12pm, against lack of security in hospitals, resulting in frequent incidents of torture of medical staff and ransacking of hospital paraphernalia in public sector hospitals. Despite availability of video evidence of lawyers’ highhandedness against medical staff in the OPD of PIC, police, under pressure from the lawyer community, declared the medical staff terrorists by registering an FIR under 7 ATA, said the GHA chairman. He demanded withdrawal of the case against doctors and medical staff. Otherwise, they will expand the scope of protest in public sector hospitals.