Protest of Jinnah Post Graduate Center’s doctors, nurses, paramedics and other staff

Protest of JPMC doctors, staff enters 6th day
KARACHI: The protest of the Jinnah Post Graduate Center’s doctors, nurses, paramedics and other staff entered its sixth day without hindering services being offered to the patients at emergency, out-patients and surgical departments.Being Friday no procession was taken out, however, staffers continued to visit the “Protest Camp” established on the hospital premises for past five days.The doctors including senior professor level professionals to junior doctors and allied professionals visiting the camp regretted that no government representative had till date approached them to listen to their plea.”This indifference may compel us to give strike call or adopt a policy of go slow,” said Dr. Mohammad Usman, an office bearer of the Action Committee. We have resorted to an approach of “peaceful protest” that may not persist if indifference continues, he said. The JOC office bearer said the doctors will take out a procession on Saturday to draw public attention towards the issue and build-up a sort of pressure on the authorities.Meanwhile, the doctors from JPMC and NICH said that it was through media that they wanted to convey that JPMC and NICH must not be put under provincial control as conceived under devolution component of the 18th amendment in the constitution. “We have a unique status of research cum medical care and thus must not be converted into a regular hospital exposed to mal-administration and mismanagement,” said a senior doctor.The doctors said that while patients’s interest were supreme for them the indifference of officials may compel them to stop working till acceptance of their demands.F.P.Report