1Medics strike enters 6th day.

KARACHI -- Protesting doctors, paramedical staff and nurses continued the boyAcott of OPDs and general wards on Saturday, on 6th consecutive day across the Sindh province.

The OPDs patients have sufAfered a lot due to week-long proAtest demonstrations of healthAcare professionals in Sindh. Thousands of patients seeking consultation had to return home with sheer disappointment as doctors, paramedical staff and nurses continued the boycott of OPDs and general wards.

The healthcare workers under the platform of Grand Health AlAliance (GHA) continued protest at Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, National InstiAtute of Child Health, Sindh GovAernment Lyari General Hospital, Sindh Government Hospital Liaquatabad, Sindh Government Hospital Qatar Hospital and othAers districts hospitals of the city.

Information Secretary, PakiAstan Peoples Paramedical Staff Welfare Association Sindh, LiaAquat Ali Mastoi while addressing the protestors at Civil Hospital Karachi said, around four dozens healthcare professionals had lost their lives on the line of duty in Pakistan and score of others had also contracted the coronaviurs so far. He said the federal governAment, Punjab, Khyber PakhtunkhAwa and Balochistan governments had announced special packages for their health care professionals including high risk allowance but the Sindh Government had not approved any allowance yet.

He demanded for risk allowance, provision of PPEs, security insurAance, Shuhada(martyrs) packAage for health workers, isolation wards for health professionals, health professional allowance, esAtablishment of information desks in all hospitals and regularization of Gavi vaccinators.

MEDICS CONTINUE PROATEST AGAINST INJUSTICES

On the call of Grand Health Alliance (GHA), doctors, nurses and paramedical staff workAing in all four Blocks of ChanAdka Medical College Hospital (CMCH) continued their boycott of OPD duties for two hours, staged sit-in and held a protest demonstration outside Central Laboratory on Saturday to press the rulers to accept their...

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