Healthcare woes: Patients humour as immature doctors strike again
Dr Saeed Khan earnings home after remaining in control of his kidnappers for 42 days. PHOTO: BANARAS KHAN/FILE
RAWALPINDI: Patients during a 3 associated hospitals in a castle city were left stranded on Wednesday as immature doctors during both a outpatient and quadriplegic departments went on a strike.
The strike had been called after military charged opposite doctors in Lahore on Tuesday.
Patients during Holy Family Hospital (HFH), Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH), District Headquarter Hospital (DHQ) faced problems overdue to a necessity of doctors on duty.
The 3 hospitals, associated with a newly determined Rawalpindi Medical University, are a categorical tertiary medical institutions in a city catering to a needs of patients entrance from as distant as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Kashmir, and opposite a Rawalpindi district.
On Wednesday, patients had to wait for longer for their medical check-ups during OPDs overdue to necessity of medical practitioners with immature doctors staying divided from a departments, operation theatres, wards, and puncture departments.
While a sanatorium administrations managed to work a outpatient departments (OPDs) by reassigning comparison doctors, a necessity of manpower, however, impacted visiting patients.
On average, around 2,000 patients revisit a OPDs of HFH each day with many patients visiting a gynaecology department.
In BBH, around 1,500 patients revisit opposite departments each day, essentially kidney patients. As distant a DHQ is concerned, over 1,000 patients visited a sanatorium with many of a cases there relating to emergencies, a comparison alloy pronounced while requesting not to be named.
He combined that OPDs and emergencies remained organic during a strike, though certified that a necessity of doctors combined problems for visiting patients. Meanwhile, officials of a Young Doctors Association (YDA) pronounced that Wednesday’s strike was partial of a incomparable strike celebrated opposite a Punjab.
YDA President during BBH Dr Rana Muhammad Azeem told The Express Tribune that a strike was usually celebrated during tertiary caring hospitals, while YDA members operative during simple and farming health units did not observe a strike and continued to work as usual.
Dr Azeem explained their strike as a criticism opposite a Punjab government’s diagnosis of immature doctors protesting in Lahore on Tuesday.
He combined that military used H2O cannons, batons, and rip gas opposite doctors who had collected peacefully to criticism opposite a non-implementation of their long-standing demands.
The YDA executive pronounced that military had after arrested 7 members of their Lahore section and they had to negotiate with a supervision for their protected release. But a government, he said, did not negotiate with YDA over their demands.
The YDA has been protesting for a sustenance of confidence during open hospitals, reversal of a executive initiation policy, a abdication of a health secretary, sustenance of health risk allowance, regularisation of ad hoc medical officers, and accede for medical officers inducted by a Punjab Public Service Commission to finish specialisations.
Published in The Express Tribune, Aug 3rd, 2017.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1472680/healthcare-woes-patients-suffer-young-doctors-strike/