QUETTA: Hundreds of patients were witnessed worried and suffering at Civil Hospital Quetta, Bolan Medical Complex Quetta and other government hospitals on Tuesday thanks to the strike being observed on the call given by Young Doctors Association Balochistan.
Lust for money has turned doctors into a specific kind of creature who are indifferent to worries and difficulties of patients suffering from pain and wounds, a weeping woman Gul Bibi carrying her little ill baby at Civil Hospital Quetta told reporters who reached their to get comments of patients about the doctor's strike.
Young Doctors Association Balochistan organizer Dr. Kamal Mandokhail and other leaders including Dr. Asif Baloch, Dr Hyat Kakar, Dr. Samad Lango and others demanded of the government to increase salaries of doctors to amount as minimum Rs 35,000 per month salary for a house-job doctor, Rs 80,000 for medical officer, Rs 70,000 for post graduate doctor, Rs 120,000 for a registrar doctor, Rs 200,000 for assistant and associate professor and Rs 300,000 for a professor doctor.
They said presently a house-job doctor was receiving Rs 12,000 per month salary and post graduate doctor Rs 25,000 in Balochistan adding that these salaries were insufficient to meet their expenditures.
When media persons including APP correspondent asked a patient namely Nawaz Khan Qalandrani to give his comments who reached Bolan Medical Complex Quetta hospital from Pangure district after 14-hour traveling through a passenger bus, he said: "I am a poor man and visited Quetta to get my little son suffering from hole in his heart examined but my ill son was no medically checked despite passage of several hours".
Another patient Gul Zaman Khan Achakzai who visited the Quetta based hospital from border town Chaman after covering a long distance said, Specialist doctors having their private clinics at Saleem Medical Complex Quetta have been earning huge money as a specialist doctor in Quetta usually earns Rs 50,000 to Rs 100,000 on daily basis as he or she charges Rs 500 to 700 fee from every patient.
When contacted, a senior official in the Health Department Balochistan on condition of anonymity told APP that they had received verbally orders from the Chief Minister Secretariat to prepare plan to sack doctors observing strike and recruit new doctors against the posts to be vacant of the termination of some doctors.
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