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OKARA, June 29: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Okara, has decided to go on strike in protest against robberies at doctors’ houses. At a meeting with PMA district president Dr Ismail Chaudhry in the chair, doctors decided to observe a three-hour (8am to 11am) strike daily at all district and tehsil headquarter hospitals, rural health centres, basic health units and private clinics and hospitals. They said they would only attend to emergency patients during the strike hours.
They said they would also contact traders and civil society groups to intensify their protest if police failed to check robberies.
