LARKANA, July 21: The contractual doctors and their children held a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Sunday to press the authorities for regularizing their jobs. They also observed a token hunger strike.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Shaukat Abro, president, Peoples Doctors Forum, Larkana, said the doctors were performing their duties in rural areas for eight years but there was uncertainty about their future.

He said the Sindh chief minister and some cabinet members time and again had assured them their jobs would be confirmed. He alleged the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ministers were blocking the regularization of jobs of 700 contractual doctors.

Dr Abro said only two months were left in the expiry of contract term but the government was still tight-lipped over the fate of the doctors.