PESHAWAR, July 2: The Specialist Doctors Society (SDS) has alleged that 98 per cent of the consultants have been running their clinics along with the institution-based practice (IBP) in the state-run hospitals.

Society leaders, in a statement issued on Tuesday, regretted that the government had failed to initiate action against the accused consultants who were openly violating the government’s directives.

The newly-formed SDS is a body of senior medical consultants who had tendered resignations against the government’s decision to start the IBP in the public-sector hospitals.  

The statement, which the society called a white paper on the IBP, also bore the names of senior consultants who were doing their private practices along with the institutional-based practice. But this violation went unchecked from the health department, it added.

The government had allowed an ophthalmologist to continue his private practice with the IBP, which, the statement claimed, created unrest among the doctors.

The body also claimed that 100 doctors had resigned from the government job rejecting the IBP, but the government stated to have received only 24 resignations. It demanded of the government to early accept the resignations to end the prevailing unrest among the doctors.

It said 124 medical college teachers had not resigned from their government jobs, many of them were neither doing the IBP nor private practice.