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Doctors continue strike

By our correspondents
February 28, 2017

LAHORE

The Young Doctors Association (YDA) continued strike at Out-Patients Department (OPD) and indoors of Services Hospital on Monday to protest against alleged victimisation of their leadership through Anti-Corruption Establishment by wrongly implicating them on charges of corruption.

The patients were the ultimate sufferers of YDA’s strike that started on February 20 following an ACE team’s raid to pick Dr Atif and Dr Salman Haseeb. Earlier, the YDA kept emergency, outdoor and indoor wards closed for five days at Services Hospital Lahore. Although YDA withdrew the strike at emergency and indoor wards on last Friday, yet it announced a boycott of services at outdoor wards of Services Hospital. It also withdrew its call for strike in outdoor wards in hospitals all over Punjab.

The closure of OPD of Services Hospital left patients with no option except to approach other hospitals for treatment.