Shahbaz Sharif vs Doctors

[Silaaj]

Re: Shahbaz Sharif vs Doctors

@Ali_Syed

I’ll bring a few things in perspective, firstly according to the advertisement the government is paying doctors over 60000 however in reality they are being paid 42000 rupees. A guy working in the bureaucracy in grade 17 earns between 55000 and 65000. The doctors who are being portrayed as villains work long hours (30 hours) once or twice a week. They are asking for a service structure which the government promised during the previous strike but backed off later (which has been the hallmark of this government). As far as people getting killed in hospitals, I’ll repeat again only OPDs are closed emergencies are open.

The underlying point that has everyone ticked off is the fact that the medical profession is one of the few where you take an oath to protect lives…and that oath is not dependent on the amount they are paid. The doctors have a right to protest, and demand more money, but they should not have the right to go on extended strikes, regardless of how mundane the strike is being made out to be (only OPD, etc). Most, if not all doctors, run private practices on the side, so it is not as if they are pressed for money.
They could have chosen to verbally protest, without suspending an medical services. They did the same last year, and that is what throws people off.

Im pretty sure it is a small gangster minority that is running the entire thing, threatening others into joining. There must be scores of responsible young doctors who want to go back to work, but are scared of their peers.