LARKANA, Dec 31: Losing patience after 20 days, relatives of kidnapped Medical Superintendent Dr Abdul Wahab Wadho of Taluka Hospital Mirokhan and local chapter of Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) demonstrated here on Monday.

They were demanding early and safe recovery of Dr Wadho and his driver Mussrat Abro who were kidnapped on Dec 12, 2012, from near the village of Thariri Hashim on the National Highway within the remit of Wagan police station. They were coming to Larkana from Hyderabad.Elder brother of Dr Abdul Wahab, Dr Abdul Sattar Wadho, led the protesters who were carrying banners and placards. They blocked the VIP road and staged a sit-in outside the DIG office.

They alleged that police kept them on false hopes and lost the foot prints of the kidnappers. Instead of moving in the right direction, they adopted a wrong route to trace. They also lashed out at the fragile law and order situation in the area.

ASP city Abrar talked to the protesters and asked them to clear the road but they refused while Dr Abdul Sattar Wadho and others met the DIG in his office. The DIG held out assurance for early recovery of the victims. Later, the protesters marched to the hunger-strikers’ camp set up in Chandka Medical College Hospital by Larkana chapter of the Pakistan Medical Association which has also begun its protest for the recovery of the doctor.

Doctors, including Larkana PMA president Dr Shahbaig Chandio, vice-chairperson Dr Shahida Shaikh and general secretary Dr Ikram Tunio, boycotted all assignments in out patient departments (OPDs) in the CMCH and its affiliated hospitals on Monday from 9am to 11am and also observed a two-hour token hunger strike.

They threatened that if police did not gear up its efforts for the early recovery of Dr Wadho, they would extend the time of their boycott.