be accommodated at the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) for their training and wanted to be adjusted at the Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC).
“Actually, there are 149 seats each in KTH and LRH and 76 in HMC for training of the doctors. We interviewed 138 doctors for the seats available at the KTH and left 10 for the doctors of supplementary examination. Out of 76 seats, 34 were interviewed for HMC and 53 in LRH. Only five or six doctors have been left out and we wanted to accommodate them in the LRH but they insisted that they should be adjusted in the HMC,” he explained.
Prof Nadim Khawar and other officials of the hospital held talks with the young doctors and promised to resolve the issue through mutual understanding with the HMC administration.
A senior official of the KTH told The News that a delegation of the doctors was sent to the HMC for holding meeting with the administration there when another group started spreading rumours that the HMC administration refused to accommodate them. Soon afterwards, the doctors were out on the street staging protest, blocking the road and eventually going on a rampage in the KTH.
Provincial Secretary Health Mushtaq Jadoon later took notice of the issue and formed an inquiry committee to probe the matter.
“These trainee medical doctors are solely responsible for taking the law into their hands for which they must be punished. Instead of blocking the road and causing damage to the public institutions, they should have used other forums including my office to find solution to their problem,” Mushtaq Jadoon told The News.
He said these people don’t deserve to be even called doctors as they attacked the same institution where they were given medical education free of cost.
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