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| June 23, 2003 | Monday | Rabi-us-Sani 22,1424 |
Doctors’ strike enters 6th day
ABBOTTABAD, June 22: The doctors’ strike, against the murder of Dr Farooq Bilal, has entered the 6th consecutive day at all the three city hospitals, Ayub Medical Complex, Women and Children Hospital and District Headquarter Hospital on Sunday.
Except emergency cover for a short while, no medical aid was provided to the patients in the wards and hundreds of patients, who visited the hospitals, could not be attended besides the closer of the OPD. Not a single operation was carried out and patients had to rush to the private hospitals.
The doctors are not sitting in the OPD block for the last five days. The hospital has a facility of 1200 beds. But, now it gives a deserted look. The doctors had asked the government to arrest the killer Sardar Moazzam advocate by Monday.
At least 15 deaths have been reported during the last three days at city hospitals, which included two AIDS patients.
The NWFP people have asked the chief minister and the governor to intervene into the matter and solve the problem on priority basis as poor patients are suffering from this strike.
IGP’s ASUURANCE: Inspector general of police, Riffat Pasha, at a news conference said the police were making all out efforts to arrest the killer, for which it had conducted 45 raids at various places in NWFP and Punjab. Earlier, the IGP attended a high-level meeting on declining law and order situation in Hazara.
He arrived here from Peshawar to get the first hand knowledge about the series of protests in the area. He asked the doctors and students to help the police in tracking down the accused.
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