Patients suffer as Punjab doctors continue to protest privatization.

LAHORE -- Patients are bearing the brunt as Punjab doctors continue to protest the privatisation of public hospitals. The protest has been ongoing for two weeks now. There were long queues outside Rawalpindi's Allied Hospital on Saturday. 'There is no doctor here. I have been waiting since 8am,' said a man. The hospital administration just keeps sending us to different rooms, he added. Another patient shared that he has travelled for four hours to come to the hospital. 'The doctors are now saying that they won't treat us because they are protesting.' The doctor's protest is against the new Medical...

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