QUETTA - The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) on Saturday has threatened to boycott hospitals countrywide, if the Balochistan government does not accept its demands within a week.
Addressing to a press conference in Quetta, PMA President Dr Azhar Jadoon said that the injustice to the doctors of Balochistan could not be tolerated any longer.
He said that 27 doctors had been killed in the province while 17 were kidnapped for ransom.
Revealing the mistreatment inflicted on the doctors, the PMA president said: “Protest is the right of the doctors but the provincial government snatched this right.Doctors faced baton charge, incarceration, their salaries were withheld, their clinics were sealed and they were evicted from their government residence.
“We condemn all these acts strongly,” he said, adding that government had no role in recovery of the kidnapped doctors, the returned after paying ransom.
He said that doctors had never refused to treat patients but how could they perform their duties, if their lives are under threat. “We say ‘give us security before getting our services.’”
Expressing solidarity with doctors of Balochistan,Jadoon demanded from the government to take back the cases registered against them within a week.
He said that doctors would boycott all hospitals in the country, if the government did not listen to their demands.