Re: Young Doctors strike in Lahore…
I have got some inside information about this strike. Government of Punjab had started advertising that the medicines in hospitals especially emergency are being given to the patients for free. Where as the situation was opposite. Due to non availability of medicines the doctors would hand over prescriptions to the attendants of the patients for buying them. The management of hospitals (MS etc) would scold the doctors/threaten to suspend them for this. Finding themselves cornered the doctors began their strike.
The problem we have now is that a large proportion of medicines available in the hospitals (of Punjab are fake). Due to this we have seen deaths due to cough syrup, polio and measles cases in spite of giving drops to kids. And we know who the health minister is.
That’s EXACTLY what a young doctor said in Mubashar’s program yesterday. THIS is what happens when you spend billions on single project and ignore the MOST basic necessities.