In order to demonstrate their protest against the kidnappings and target killings of doctors, the Pakistan Medical Association will go on strike today, Monday. Speaking to reports on Sunday, the Pakistan Medical Association’s President, Dr Abdul Aziz Lehri stated that the strike would be observed in government and private hospitals throughout the country. According to […]
An office bearer of the Pakistan Flour Mills Association stated that the flourmills of Punjab will observe a day’s token strike in solidarity with flourmills of Karachi, that have remained closed for seven consecutive days due to the indefinite shutter down strike against the Sindh Food Department. Chairman of the PFMA, Chaudhary Muhammad Yousuf stated, […]
Doctors in Punjab still not paid Doctors recruited on an ad hoc basis and through the Punjab Public Service Commission to man government hospitals during the Young Doctors Association (YDA) Punjab strike have still not been paid their first salaries. Ad hoc doctors said that they had been working for a month and a half […]
Aug 13 2012 | Posted in
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Quetta: (Saturday, August 11, 2012) Protesting against abduction of Dr Ghulam Rasool, doctors’ strike in Balochistan has entered into 11th consecutive day. The government and law enforcement agencies seem oblivious of the presence of the issue that has started to affect the local patients seriously and are yet to take serious measures that may assure […]
Aug 11 2012 | Posted in
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Doctor’s strike in Quetta reaches 9th day Local doctors went on strike on July 31, following the kidnapping of a well-known psychiatrist Dr Ghulam Rasool and the government’s failure to get him released. The strike has spread across several government and private hospitals in the city. Outpatient departments, operation theatres and labour and gynecological wards […]
Aug 9 2012 | Posted in
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Quetta: (Wednesday, August 08, 2012) Protesting against the forced abduction of Dr Ghulam Rasool, the doctors’ strike in Balochistan has entered in eighth day. The doctors in Balochistan, including Quetta, are observing this strike on request of the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) to push the government to make efforts for release of Dr Ghulam Rasool’s […]
Aug 8 2012 | Posted in
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Quetta: (Tuesday, August 07, 2012) Over the protracted abduction of Dr. Ghulam Rasool, the doctors in Balochistan continued their boycott of the OPDs on Monday. The doctors, however, provided emergency services in both the private and public hospitals. It has been the sixth day since the doctors in Quetta and rest of the province are […]
Aug 7 2012 | Posted in
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Strike in Quetta has psychiatrist goes missing A complete shutter down strike was observed on Sunday in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan to protest against the kidnapping of renowned psychiatrist Dr Ghulam Rasool, who was abducted last week. The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Balochistan, and other doctors’ representative bodies issued the call for the […]
Aug 6 2012 | Posted in
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Young doctors to receive good news Secretary Health Punjab Arif Nadeem has said that the process of dialogue with young doctors is continuing and the latter will receive good news soon, Geo News reported. Talking to ‘Geo News’ here Saturday, Secretary Health said the doctors appointed during the strike of YDA will not be removed. […]
Aug 5 2012 | Posted in
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Quetta: (Friday, August 03, 2012) Doctors in government and private hospitals in Quetta observed complete strike on Thursday following the call from Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Balochistan Chapter. Other medical organizations also joined in the strike against the abduction of another doctor, Dr Ghulam Rasool, of Bolan Medical Complex. On Wednesday, unknown med had kidnapped […]
Aug 3 2012 | Posted in
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Doctors in Balochistan go on strike The doctors in government and private hospitals of Quetta are observing a strike Thursday following the call of Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Balochistan chapter against the kidnapping of another doctor of Bolan Medical Complex (BMC), Geo News reported. Unknown armed men abducted a psychiatrist Dr Ghulam Rasool of BMC […]
Aug 2 2012 | Posted in
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Islamabad: (Wednesday, August 01, 2012) The Accountant General Pakistan Revenues’ (AGPR) employees, in a hurriedly made decision, have decided to end the strike. The decision to end the strike was made by the Joint Action Committee (JAC), that was convened to reconsider the earlier decision to go on strike. The sources in the AGPR said […]
Aug 1 2012 | Posted in
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