The protests of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) do not seem to end any soon. Their strike which began across Sindh including Karachi on Wednesday continued for the second day on Thursday. The new series of protests by the doctors is over non-issuance of a notification regarding increase in their salaries and other allowances. YDA protestors said that the protest will continue until the physicians in Sindh get equivalent salaries, health allowance, insurance, service structure and other perks to the house officers in Punjab and KP. Out Patient Departments and operation theatres remained closed in Karachi’s Jinnah, Civil, Lyari General hospitals while patients were facing difficulties in receiving medical treatment in different government hospitals across Sindh following protests of physicians. YDA protestors claimed that Sindh Information Advisor Murtaza Wahab had assured increments in salaries and allowances but implementation was not made by the provincial authorities yet.
Published in Daily Times, February 15th 2019.
