Doctors strike: 22 patients die across Punjab - Kaha Mer Gaye Saray Politicians ?

[zeshaan]

Presedent Zardari,
P M Gilani,
Fed health Minister,
be charge,
for not allocating the fund's and missmanagment.Anyway they are also involve in all these deaths.

Punjab C M
Punjab health minister,
all,
Should be charge for all thease death.

Gilani kay bachay kaa opration england main hooraha hay,KION?
kia uss per damm darood naheen hoo sakta tha,iss roohanee paishwa say.

 

[adnan_swati]

Re: Doctors in Punjab call off strike

30000. i dont think they are getting 30 thousands. a medical officer might be getting this but not trainee doctors etc

 

[Muhammad Tauseef A. Bajwa]

Doctors strike: LHC chief justice wants health secretary sacked

Doctors strike: LHC chief justice wants health secretary sacked
Published: April 8, 2011

Judge also criticises Punjab government for playing with lives.

LAHORE:
Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry has expressed displeasure at the fact that Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad has not been sacked and slammed the Punjab government for its complete failure to manage the healthcare crisis in the province.

The chief justice also summoned the Punjab chief secretary for Friday to explain the situation at the hospitals where doctors were on strike and the Young Doctors Association (YDA) president to explain the legal position of the associations establishment.

Justice Chaudhry issued the orders on a petition filed by journalist Manzoor Qadir which asked the court to direct the government to take action against the striking doctors for violating their professional oath.

The court held that whoever was responsible for causing the closure of hospitals should be punished, as they were playing with peoples lives. He observed that the chief minister had suspended commissioner-level officers within 24 hours of the strike called by the Provincial Civil Service, but 36 days after the start of the doctors strike, had not taken action against the official responsible (the health secretary).

The chief justice held that the crisis was a complete failure of the Punjab government. He was hearing the case before doctors called off their strike later in the day after a meeting with the chief minister. Appearing before the court, the health secretary defended the governments handling of the crisis.

He submitted that the government had been engaged with the doctors since the start of their protest and had tried its best to minimise the disruption to patient treatment.

Fawad said the government could not raise the salaries of doctors immediately, as they had demanded, but would do so in the next budget. Also, the government would have to consider the demands of paramedics and nurses when raising doctors salaries.

He said that there was a meeting going on right now at the Chief Ministers Secretariat with representatives of the protesting doctors and hoped that the strike would end soon.

The petitioners counsel submitted that 200 patients had died because they had not been given medical treatment during the strike. He said that the protesting doctors were harassing the doctors who had not joined the strike.

He said the government had given the protesting doctors a free-hand and they were taking the law and lives of the poor into their hands.

The chief justice observed that while government hospitals were closed, the poor could not afford to go to private hospitals and so the government was playing with their lives.

He said he would decide later whether or not those responsible should be prosecuted.

An additional advocate general told the court that if the doctors did not return to the hospitals, the government would pay to get patients treated at private hospitals.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 8th, 2011.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/145274/doctors-strike-lhc-chief-justice-wants-health-secretary-sacked/

 

[Muhammad Tauseef A. Bajwa]

"The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, But because of the silence of good people!"- Napoleon