September 16, 2007	Sunday	Ramazan 03, 1428

NAWABSHAH, Sept 15: Dozens of doctors who were doing post-graduation from the Nawabshah Medical College boycotted their duties on Saturday and staged a demonstration inside the hospital in protest against non-payment of stipends for past four months.

The president of the Postgraduate Doctors Action Committee told reporters that more than 150 postgraduate students were performing duties in different wards of the NMC hospital for long.

They also had to work extra hours to make up for the shortage of doctors, still the hospital had been releasing Rs6,200 each stipends to only 40 out of 150 doctors and it too had been stopped for last four months.

They demanded that the governor of Sindh and chief minister should direct the authorities to resume paying stipends to all the postgraduate students.