Shahbaz Sharif vs Doctors

Enigmatic · July 1, 2012, 6:49pm

Re: Shahbaz Sharif vs Doctors

^ My brother is working as a government doctor, and while the government has increased the salaries during the past few years but they are not over 60000 as the government is portraying in its advertidements. Secondly at the moment only the OPD’s are closed, emergency is being attended. The situation is not entirely as the government is portraying it to be. The doctors work really long hours and basically their demand is to have a service structure (like hiring, promotions etc) like the rest of the govt employees, as most of them come as grade 17 and retire at the most grade 18. The attitude of the government towards the health department has forced over 5000 doctors to leave the country and if they dont make the situation conducive for them many more would leave. At the end it would be Pakistan’s loss.

I absolutely agree. The cream of the doctors is already making way to the US, UK and Middle East. The poor ones who decide to stay there are just ridiculed by the media and the general public. Last year they had the similar strike…the news channels kept blaring against the drs. when the hue and cry went down and the Punjab Govt. so called agreed to them, nobody even bothered reporting that the demands weren’t completely fulfilled. I haven’t seen any report on the media about the good work the doctors do day and night.

And it’s important to note tht currently ONLY the OPDs are shut down..Emergencies are being fully attended to. All they are demanding is a service structure and i don’t see anything wrong with that. why should doctors after at least 10 years of studies and loads of exams be on contractual basis only in Govt. hospitals?

and it’s just not Pakistan but all over the world doctors and healthcare professionals have gone on strike. Even just recently here in the UK the doctors were on strike against British medical Association’s certain reforms.

the pay they have been bleating about is a blatant lie. Payslips are available on their YDA page to show their real salary.

AND no I don’t belong to the YDA nor am I in Pakistan at the moment but I know for sure what’s going on there because I have friends, cousins everybody working there.