Paramedics continue protest

LAHORE
The paramedics and nurses of Shaikh Zayed Hospital continued their protest and sit-in in front of Administration Block of the hospital on Thursday against proposed privatisation of the institution with the formation of Board of Trustees.
Meanwhile, Young Doctors Association (YDA), Pakistan, General Secretary, Dr Salman Kazmi said Board of Trustees had been formed with an Act of Parliament, which could only be reversed through a legislation rather than holding protests. He said the paramedics and nurses of Shaikh Zayed Hospital were being misled as such a protest would not be fruitful because the SZH administration could not reverse it on its own. He also believed that the paramedics and nurses should adopt some better way to protest because they were actually increasing the sufferings of patients by closing operation theaters and blocking the entry of patients into hospital. He claimed that no hospital was ever closed during the protests of YDA, and treatment of patients continued in hospitals despite young doctors’ strike or protest demonstration.
Meanwhile, Chairman & Dean Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex, Lahore, Prof Dr Farid Ahmad Khan has said Shaikh Zayed Hospital was not being privatised. He constituted a committee for organising a meeting between Allied Health Union and the hospital administration.