Monday incidents also badly affected treatment of patients in outdoor and indoor wards as well as postponement of minor operations due to closure of operation theatres.
Earlier on Saturday, the YDA Mayo Hospital members including Dr Inamullah Burki and Dr Umair Rana bullied and locked Prof Akmal Laeeq, along with an assistant professor, a senior registrar and other doctors in his office for refusing to approve of induction of more PG trainees on the basis of filling of all available seats in his department.
However, they were rescued from illegal confinement by Dr Amjad Shahzad, medical superintendent of Mayo Hospital, after two hours.
Later, the Academic Council of KEMU, in its extraordinary meeting, passed a unanimous resolution to resign en bloc until the YDA hooligans were awarded exemplary punishment.
“The YDA goons are involved in acts of harassment of senior professors,” the Academic Council noted with regret, and vowed to draw a line to protect the honour of senior professors serving at the most prestigious medical institution of the country.
The KEMU administration formed two three-member committees - Negotiation Committee headed by Prof Dr Asad Aslam Khan and a Fact-Finding Committee - with directions to submit their reports with recommendations to resolve the issue in an effective manner.
YDA Punjab leader Dr Amir Bandesha categorically denied harassment by locking up of Prof Akmal Laeeq, saying the matter had been politicised by Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) and College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP), whose office-bearers were also serving in different departments in the university and were trying to defame the YDA.
He said the YDA was ready to tender an apology to Prof Dr Akmal Laeeq and other senior doctors, but vowed to foil all conspiracies being hatched against the YDA.
Prof Dr Abrar Ashraf Ali, professor of surgery at KEMU, who has also served as an office-bearer of the PMA, said the YDA was putting blame on the PMA or the CPSP for face-saving, saying that Academic Council, teaching staff and students were showing solidarity with Prof Akmal Laeeq and endeavouring to protect the honour of senior faculty members from YDA hooligans.