Nurses strike paralyze health services across Sindh province.

LARKANA -- Health services were paralyzed in the hospitals of Sindh province as nurses continued their protest and boycott of duties on Thursday for not acceptance of their genuine demands. The Sindh nurses, under the banner of Sindh Nurses Alliance, completely boycotted the emergency services, intensive care units, paediatric intensive care unit, paediatric emergencies, cardiac intensive care unit and other services at the hospital across the Sindh province. The situation was similar in Hyderabad, Sukkur, Larkana, Mirpurkhas, Jamshoro, Shikarpur, Mithi, Jacobabad, Ghotki, Badin, Kashmore, Dadu and other cities where patients were being turned away, SNA said the protest would continue across the province until the implementation of written agreement.

The nurses are protesting all over the Sindh province for their unfilled demands including health professional allowance, promotion and up-gradation of nurses under four-tier...