Lawmakers back PMDC workers, reject new ordinance.

Byline: Ikram Junaidi

ISLAMABAD -- LawAmaAkers belonging to different political parties on WedAnesday visited the protest camp set up outside the building of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) by the sacked employees to express solidarity with them.

The lawmakers pledged that they would take every possible step to reject the newly-promulgated Pakistan Medical CommisAsion Ordinance, 2019.

They urged the government to give jobs to the masses instead of making them unemployed.

The ordinance, promulgated by President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi last week, has not only given autonomy to private medical colleges, but also terminated services of around 220 employees of the PMDC.

It left the PMDC dissolved and paved the way for establishment of a new organisation called the Pakistan Medial Commission (PMC).

As the health ministry has sealed the building of council, employees have started their sit-in outside the building and set up a protest camp there.

Former deputy chairman of Senate and Secretary General of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri while addressing the protesting employees said that the issue would be immediately taken up in the parliament.

'It is unjustified that jobs of such a large number of employees have been terminated. Moreover, doctors in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are also suffering and protesting because of unjust and cruel policies of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government,' he said.

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