FAISALABAD, June 18: Employees of the DHQ Hospital on June 17 observed complete strike against non-payment of salaries to contract staffers and sacking of 59 employees for possessing fake degrees.
The DHQ Hospital Employees Union closed all wards except emergency to register their protest. The employees also staged a sit-in outside the hospital. They demanded payment of salaries to the contract employees. Speaking on the occasion, the union leaders warned of strike for an indefinite period if their demands were not accepted in a week. Meanwhile, the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Faisalabad chapter protested against the appointment of bureaucrat Dr Ajmal as the Punjab Healthcare Commission chief executive officer and demanded reconstitution of the Punjab Healthcare Commission. Addressing a meeting, PMA general secretary Dr Irfan Ali said that there was no post of chief operating officer in the Punjab Healthcare Commission and regretted that the members of the Healthcare Commission Technical Advisory Committee were also bureaucrats. He said that the PMA would continue its protest till the reconstitution of the Punjab Healthcare Commission and demanded Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and the provincial health minister to intervene and issue early orders to reconstitute the Punjab Healthcare Commission.
Published by Daily The News on June 18, 2014