Doctors' strike adds to patients' plight.

LAHORE -- Patients have been suffering for 13 days as the government and medics continue to lock horns over the Punjab Medical Teaching Institutions (Reforms) Act 2019. The Grand Health Alliance - a body of young doctors, young consultants, nurses, paramedical staff and allied health professionals - vowed to continue protest till withdrawal of the government decision of 'privatiing the hospitals under the garb of reforms'. The healthcare providers stayed away from duties at OPDs, operation theatres, radiological and pathological labs at teaching hospitals including Mayo Hospital, Services Hospital, Children's Hospital, LGH, Jinnah Hospital, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Shaikh Zayed Hospital, PIC in Lahore as well as other districts across the province. Patients were the ultimate suffers of the strike as they had left with no...