Unpaid PGs and trainee doctors continue to protest at ASH

KARACHI: The postgraduates (PGs) and House Officer of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) continued protest demonstration outside the Administration Block to pay five months’ salaries. 

The protesting doctors have stopped patients and their attendants at the main OPD entrance gate. The protest of doctors has compelled patients to return to their homes without consultation.   

The score of protesting young doctors carrying placards and banners is described with different slogans like justice for doctors, pay a five-month stipend, and others. 

The protesting doctors said PGs and trainee house officers had not been paid monthly stipends for five months due to negligence of Medical & Health Services, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC). They said unpaid house officers had been compelled to stage protests against authorities concerned with KMC.   

The protesters said protest demonstration and boycott of duties would continue till deposit of their salaries in accounts.