PESHAWAR, Nov 27: The Development Organisation for Trans-national Culture and Media has demanded reinstatement of the medical professors and senior doctors who resigned in protest against the Institution-Based Private Practice (IBP) law.

Qaisar Khan Advocate, coordination secretary of the organisation, said in a statement here on Monday that the sacking of experienced doctors had created a vacuum in the health sector. He urged the NWFP government to consider taking them back because the provincial assembly had scraped the controversial law on Nov 22.

He said that the then governor NWFP, in a short-sighted decision, had sacked 30 senior-most doctors of the province that had resulted in de-regularisation of 12 faculties of the Khyber Medical College, which were still incomplete. He appealed to Maulana Fazl Rehman, Qazi Hussain Ahmad and NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani to take up the issue of reinstatement of these doctors.