KARACHI, Dec 18: Doctors from various Sindh government institutions on Monday staged a demonstration for increase in stipends and other remunerations for doctors and streamlining of promotion system of specialists.

A number of doctors, gathered outside the Karachi Press Club in the afternoon on a call given by Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), held banners and placards. The rally was of the view that the recently announced reforms in service structure for doctors in Punjab was a befitting development and those should be adopted by the Sindh government as well, otherwise it would be a sheer injustice to doctors in Sindh.

According to PMA Karachi Secretary-General Dr S. M. Qaisar Sajjad, the Punjab chief minister has reformed doctors’ service structure after consulting PMA Lahore. The Sindh government should also reform the service structure at the earliest to eliminate unrest among the doctors in the province, he added.

The PMA demanded that district and tehsil specialist’s post be filled 50 per cent from eligible general cadre doctors by promotion and 50 per cent through public service commission by initial recruitment on permanent basis, while for clinical side 50 per cent posts of senior registrar in each speciality should be filled by promotion from general cadre doctors with post-graduation in respective fields and 50 per cent by service commission.