KARACHI, Aug 12: The house job doctors at the Lyari General Hospital on Thursday staged demonstration in front of the Press Club to protest over insecure conditions at the hospital.

Holding placards, the protestors chanted slogans and demanded provision of security to doctors during their duty hours. A doctor, Rafiq Mangi, deplored that he was deprived of his mobile phone, wrist watch and Rs1,500 at gunpoint by two unidentified persons, while he was on duty on Wednesday night, at about 10pm.

The doctors said they had been facing this situation since a long time, but now the problem had become so acute that they decided to protest over it. They demanded the Sindh governor, chief minister, IG and other higher authorities to provide them with security, so that they could perform their duties in a secure environment. - PPI