RAWALPINDI: Adviser to Chief Minister Punjab, Raja Ashfaq Sarwar said that it is the responsibility of professors of medical colleges to play their effective role to call off the strike of young doctors.

He appealed to the young doctors to call off strike and join their duties on priority. Punjab government does not want to spoil the future of young doctors, he said and added, otherwise new doctors will be appointed.

He expressed these views while talking to journalists after his visit to the Holy Family Hospital here on Monday.

Besides, Commissioner Rawalpindi, Zahid Saeed, Regional Police Officer (RPO) Hamid Mukhtar Gondal, Principal Allied Hospitals Dr Afzal Farooqi, EDO Dr Zafar Iqbal Gondal and DO Dr Khalid Randhwa were also present.

Raja Ashfaq Sarwar said that salaries of Post Graduate Trainee doctors have already been increased to Rs 20,000.

Sometimes ago, doctors' salaries were enhanced up to 50 per cent to 60 per cent. Under the package, the Punjab Government will have to bear Rs 55 billion extra expenditure.

He said    that 800 Post Graduate Trainee doctors are serving in the country. But 4,500 Post Graudate Trainee doctors are working in Punjab.

He said that Punjab Government will have to bear Rs 30 billion extra expenditure after increasing the salaries of Young Doctors to Rs 20,000.

Chief of Allied Hospitals, Dr Afzal Farooqi told that 28 new doctors have been appointed in teaching hospitals to help the needy patients.

He further said that 30 doctors were appointed in emergencies to perform operations in the hospitals. He said that emergencies are fully operative and patients are being facilitated.