Doctors' strike in Punjab enters into 10th day.

LAHORE -- Grand Health Alliance of Punjab doctors continued their protest on Saturday for the tenth day across all government hospitals against the Medical Teaching Institutions (MTI) Reform Act. As per details, paramedical staff and nurses shut down the out-patient departments (OPD) of public hospitals in all major cities, including Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan, Rahim Yar Khan, Sargodha, and Faisalabad, to protest the proposed privatisation of the government-run hospitals. In few hospital, doctors have also closed the laboratories as well. According to an official notification, issued a day earlier, the Ministry of Health has asked for a list of all doctors and paramedical staff who are not complying with their duties and are partaking...

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