PDA To Hold Protests Over Elective Services From Sept 26

News Desk

Peshawar: The Provincial Doctors Association (PDA) announced a boycott of elective services across the province, including Peshawar, on Tuesday (September 26) and will hold protest demonstrations in government hospitals.

The PDA held an emergency meeting regarding the approval of demands and decided that there would be a protest in Hayatabad Medical Complex on September 26, at Lady Reading Hospital on September 27 and at Khyber Teaching Hospital on September 28.

All trainee medical officers (TMOs) and house officers (HOs) are informed to be part of the protest during the boycott, the meeting decided.

In case the demands are not met, the scope of the protest will be spread from Medical Teaching Institutions (MTI) to peripheral hospitals, where duty will be boycotted and site-ins will be held on the streets, stated PDA.

Doctors who are not yet part of the organising protest are also invited to participate. APP