LAHORE – Announcing a sit-in protest outside the CM secretariat on Wednesday (tomorrow) to press their demand for service structure, the Young Doctors Association Punjab chapter declared baseless the claim of accepting 42 out of 45 demands.
Addressing a press conference at Sir Ganga Rama Hospital on Monday, YDA Punjab leader Dr Nasir Abbas said that no protocol would be given to parliamentarians and bureaucrats while their family members would be provided treatment at general wards.
Dr Nasir Abbas said that parliamentarians and bureaucrats would not be allowed to enter hospitals even for administering polio vaccine. He said that convoys of doctors from Rahim Yar Khan, Bahawalpur, Multan and Rawalpindi would leave for Lahore on Tuesday (today) to participate in the sit in protest. Dr Nasir said that the government would be responsible for the consequences if it tries to stop doctors from staging a sit in. The YDA claims that the government’s assertion of accepting majority of the demands is fake and misleading.
Dr Nasir further said that they demanded the government to seek apology from doctors and the nation for telling a lie. He said that the YDA tried to approach PML-N President Nawaz Sharif but could not succeed. Denying affiliation with any party, Nasir said that a number of political outfits have extended moral support to the YDA for fighting the cause of doctors. He said that Rs1,000 each has been collected from doctors to bear the expenses of staging a sit in.
Baby murder case: Additional District and Sessions Judge Nisar Ahmed summoned eyewitnesses on November 5 and directed the investigation officer (IO) to complete probe until the next hearing on pre-arrest bails of seven doctors facing charges of murder of an infant baby .
Petitioners Dr Usman, Dr Sulaiman, Dr Adil, Dr Assad, Dr Hannan, Dr Usmanul Haq, Dr Tajaml told the court that they were implicated in this case to fail the young doctors’ strike.
They told the court that the crack-down against doctors was nothing but political victimization. They submitted that Fahad died in Mayo Hospital’s Emergency while the handcuffed doctors were neither in that Emergency nor present there.
In the meanwhile, the police submitted interim challan in the court contending that during the investigation the accused doctors handed them over some videos and other documents which are being investigated. Police said that they did not find any evidence against Dr Adil which could be mentioned in interim challan. However, the judge sent all bails to district and session judge for consolidation of cases in Nisar Ahmed’s court where the trial is going on.