KARACHI, Oct 2: After receiving proper assurance from the authorities concerned, the doctors, paramedics and other staff at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre ended their protest and resumed their duties on Tuesday.

The doctors resorted to an hour-long token strike on a daily basis since Sept 26 when their colleague Mubashir Ahmed Sheikh, senior professor of pathology and principal of JPMC Medical Technology College, was gunned down near his clinic in Manzoor Colony.

Prof Tariq Rafi of JPMC Doctors Association said more than 2, 500 patients were attended to at the OPD besides 600 patients at the emergency ward. He said the protesting doctors after obtaining assurance from the authorities concerned had been attending patients.

JPMC Deputy Director Dr Seemien Jamali said 25 to 30 routine surgeries and six to eight major operations were being performed daily. She said all measures were being taken to support the admitted patients as well as the visitors. She also said the city government conducted fogging across the hospital on Tuesday morning.—APP