QUETTA: Despite over 500 vacant positions across the province, jobless female doctors on Monday had to resort to protest against the provincial government to press their demand for employment.

The doctors who completed their studies from the province’s only medical institute — Balochistan Medical College — staged a demonstration outside the Balochistan Assembly to demand immediate job placements.

The protesters chanted slogans against the provincial authorities for not being able to offer jobs despite a dearth of female physicians and health staff in the region.

Provincial Health Minister Rehmat Saleh Baloch and Speaker Raheela Durrani met the protesting doctors outside the assembly, assuring them that the provincial government was committed to revamping the health department and had maintained a record of all vacant posts from the last four years.

The female doctors then called off the protest.­

Published in Dawn, August 29th, 2017