QUETTA: The Young Doctors Association (YDA) of Balochistan has warned that if its demands are not accepted within the next 48 hours it will boycott emergency services in all government hospitals across the province.

Speaking at a press conference at Quetta Civil Hospital on Tuesday, Dr Hafeez Mandokhail, the chairman of YDA, said the association’s members wou­ld take out a peaceful procession on Wednesday (to­day) in support of their demands.

“After the procession, a future strategy will be evo­l­ved and it will be impleme­nted across the province,” Dr Mandokhail declared.

“Doctors are being deprived of their basic rights despite their protest,” he said, adding that people had been facing difficulties in hospitals for the last 28 days, but unfortunately the Balochistan chief minister was in Karachi and the provincial government was not taking the doctors’ problems seriously.

He said the government had arrested some doctors and kept them in jail with criminals. He said that all demands of the doctors were legitimate and constitutional.

Published in Dawn, December 22nd, 2021