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Young doctors’ strike enters 3rd day

LAHORE: The Young Doctors Association (YDA) on Saturday continued its strike at Punjab government hospitals against the Medical Teaching Institutions (MTI) Reform Act.

Patients kept on suffering at the out-patient departments (OPDs) of all government-run hospitals in Punjab as paramedical staff and nurses shut down the OPDs of public hospitals in all major cities, including Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan, Rahim Yar Khan, Sargodha, and Faisalabad, to protest the proposed privatisation of the government-run hospitals.

The YDA has said it won’t allow the government to privatise government hospitals and vowed to continue strike until their demands are not met.

The group of doctors has been been protesting since May 2.

In February, doctors across Sindh also went on a strike for days to press the Pakistan Peoples Party led government for a pay raise at par with their counterparts in Punjab.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.