Every two/three months, the organization called Young Doctors association give a call for strike and says that they will not treat patients until their demands are met. What are these demands, most of the time it is about money, increase their salary, give them hefty packages and until they get it, they will let the people suffer… this is what the doctors says, the doctors who got their MBBS from Illama Iqbal Medical College, King Edward, Fatima Jinnah Medical University/College and many other Govt Medical colleges.
Now as per my understandings, in these govt colleges/Universities, the students are subsidized when it comes to financial matters, i.e. govt pays most of the expenses and very little % of these expenses are taken from these students… So i can say that it is the tax payers money which is used to produce doctors, the very doctors who calls for the strike and do not care about the people who have paid for their expenses…
No Matter what… these license of the doctors involved in such activities should be cancelled and their degrees should be revoked…
I think the present strike is due to the government posting some doctors to rural areas while some of them are doing their post graduate training in government hospitals. That would mean the end to their professional development. On the other side the government needs doctors in the rural areas because no one wants to go and work there, I believe that the government will have to provide better salaries to the doctors plus utilities like vehicles and fuel for the people working in the region. Moving them on the same pay scales with no visible benefit we will keep on witnessing these things in the future.
^^ Govt and People of Pakistan already paid for their education, tell me, apart from them, which educational sector is heavily subsidized and yes govt is right when they want these doctors to go and practice in rural areas... whats wrong in practicing there? didn't doctors gets some kind vow to help the humanity in distress, then rural area needs them more than the urban areas...
Salaries and benefits can always be talked upon... i agree, they should be given more, but if there disease of any patient got complicated or somebody dies because of this strike will that raise in the salary and benefit is going to fix it or bring it back???
These doctors are the same, who spend lots of their time in resting while on duty, i must say, half of the time these doctors on duty are not available, running some private practice... and when any MS or related govt department get strict with them, they found petty excuses to go on strike...
Now tell me, why they want to stay in then urban areas??? the reason is here they mint money by private practice??? tell me didn't they knew the salary of the doctor when they got themselves enrolled in the Medical College???
The government and doctors should talk and have the issue resolved, I am not in favour of the strikes as well especially in a sensitive profession like Health.
No they havent stopped practising, the strike has been called off just now. The doctors earn around Rs 40000 a month (after salary increase) its still not possible for a family of 4 to survive in the salary considering the inflation and it becomes worse if the family is living in a rented house.
No they havent stopped practising, the strike has been called off just now. The doctors ear around Rs 40000 a month (after salary increase) its still not possible for a family of 4 to survive in the salary considering the inflation.
If it is young doctors, with 3- 5 years of practice this is fair amount considering the over all economic picture of Pakistan, going by this logic, every other sector should go on strike because very few of them makes good money in early years...
as per my understandings, doctors and lawyers are the professions where the more years you have practiced and have made good name, the more you have chances to make good money...
I agree that Govt spending lots of money on Doctors and I don't think so "kah Koi Doctor bhook say mar gia ho". In my home town every young doctor build a hospital after 4 to 5 years practice.
This is pathetic action by these so called educated people.
I personally feel that all public service employees should never be allowed to go on strike. Services like health, transportation and education cannot be suspended, as it takes a heavy toll on the public at large.
However, a lot goes on behind the scenes from a political perspective, which forces people to come out on the streets. These issues may seem petty to us, but when you have certain ghost doctors who have been drawing regular salaries from the government for years, and have never been posted out of a metropolis, and have never shown up to work other than on a day when the chief minister or prime minister is paying a visit, and on the other hand, you have doctors who do their job as asked, you will have such reactions every now and then.
I personally feel that all public service employees should never be allowed to go on strike. Services like health, transportation and education cannot be suspended, as it takes a heavy toll on the public at large.
However, a lot goes on behind the scenes from a political perspective, which forces people to come out on the streets. These issues may seem petty to us, but when you have certain ghost doctors who have been drawing regular salaries from the government for years, and have never been posted out of a metropolis, and have never shown up to work other than on a day when the chief minister or prime minister is paying a visit, and on the other hand, you have doctors who do their job as asked, you will have such reactions every now and then.
Leave the job, tell the media whats going on, name the culprits who are playing foul are few do able solutions, but going on strike saying some are not doing their duty and we are doing that is why strike is our right is not the right way, all doctors, involved in the strike should be fired from their jobs and their degrees/licenses shall be revoked for such inhuman act...
Engineers in government service are paid more or less the same.
and are they always work in the urban areas or they have to go to rural side as well??? plus when are they planning the strike, i believe their strike will have much more impact then the strike of the doctors... after all, engineers looks after almost everything..
The concept of house job has been around for light years. Every new doctor who ever wants to work for any government-run health facility, is supposed to do a 2-year house job with postings in interior areas. It has never been a problem if you go a few years back. But since these new associations have sprouted, a new strike is called every month.
And this is not the end, lady health workers also staged a sit-in in front of the CM House today and threatened to go on strike if their demands were not met
Leave the job, tell the media whats going on, name the culprits who are playing foul are few do able solutions, but going on strike saying some are not doing their duty and we are doing that is why strike is our right is not the right way, all doctors, involved in the strike should be fired from their jobs and their degrees/licenses shall be revoked for such inhuman act...
I never said striking is right. I personally feel strikes should be illegal, specially for public service employees. However, leaving the job, which one has attained after rigorous public service exams and procedures, and one that pays your bills, is not that easy and simple. Secondly, firing them and revoking their licenses is not wise. Our doctor/patient ratio is pathetic as it is....plus, it will only give rise to the number of quacks practicing in our country.
Strikes should be made illegal, automatically disqualifying anyone who engages in a strike. I believe this will prevent a lot of the strikers from going ahead with the crowd. More importantly, solutions should be found for the problems that they present, without prejudice. Politics should be eradicated from these institutions.
That's how civilized nations handle blackmailing from such unions:
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On August 3, 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (USA) declared a strike, seeking better working conditions, better pay and a 32-hour workweek. President Ronald Reagan declared the PATCO strike a "peril to national safety" and ordered them back to work. Only 1,300 of the nearly 13,000 controllers returned to work. On August 5, following the PATCO workers' refusal to return to work, Reagan fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order, and banned them from federal service for life.
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I think the recent increase in pay scale of doctors was a great move because it allows them to work on a respectable salary with a good lifestyle without needing to go abroad.
they seem to be abusing their position now. and, true the service in govt hospitals is deplorable. also the fees for medical schools are paltry when you compare them to the rest of the world. they are very very heavily subsidised. around 13000 Rs a year is nothing to get a medical degree.
