YDA Boycotts OPDS Over Non-Payment Of Salaries

APP
Multan: The Young Doctors Association (YDA) boycotted the Outdoor Patient Departments (OPDs) of the Nishtar hospital as a protest against non-payment of salaries on Monday.
President of the Association, Nadeem, resolved that the boycott would continue until payment of the salary.
Talking to APP, he said YDA, Lahore chapter, called on the Special Health Secretary on behalf of them, who assured that the matter would be resolved until Friday, but there was no progress at all.
He said Nishtar Hospital, among many others, is striped of salaries for the last 11 days ahead of Ramzan. Despite repeated assurances by the health department as well as the local administration, it couldn’t sort out the strife, he added.
Dr Ali Abuzar Raza said young doctors, including postgraduate trainees and house officers, are the backbone of hospitals, performing 24/7. Getting them deprived of their wages isn’t less than tyranny in this on-going time of inflation, he said.
It may be important to mention that at MS Nishtar Hospital, Dr Kazim assured the scribe twice that the salary would be released the next day as he had deposited a check in the bank. But it couldn’t be made so far, triggering protests today by the Doctors United organization.
A source at HBL Bank disbursed the salary and informed me that it had received check no. 209073 but that the amount hadn’t been transferred to the bank.