LAHORE, April 25: Doctors on Tuesday boycotted their outdoor duties from 12 noon to 2pm on the call of the Pakistan Medical Association Action Committee to press the government for acceptance of their demands.

The action committee also observed a token hunger strike while setting up a protest camp in front of the PMA House.

Speaking on the occasion, PMA leaders termed the health minister’s statement that most of doctors’ demands had been met misleading.

They said the health department bureaucracy was misleading the government by presenting wrong facts. They said the doctors had come out on road from their institutions as a mark of protest against health department’s failure in solving their genuine problems.

Lahore PMA president Prof Imtiaz Rasool, Prof Yasmin Rashid, Dr Tanvir Anwar, Dr Azeemuddin Zahid, Dr Izhar Chaudhry, Dr Shahid Malik, Dr Afsar Bhatti, Dr Haq Nawaz Bharwana, Dr Iqbal, Dr Sarwar Chaudhry and a large number of working committee members participated in the hunger strike camp.

CRITICISED: The Pakistan Medical Association, Punjab and Lahore branches, and the Postgraduate Doctors Association have jointly condemned a PMA group for observing a strike in hospitals. —Staff Reporter