PMDC employees continue protest against MDC Ordinance 2019.

ISLAMABAD -- Dozens of employees of the dissolved Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) on Friday gathered and staged protest condemning the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) Ordinance 2019, alleging it a step of making hundreds unemployed.

On the fifth day of protest, the dissolved PMDC employees reached outside the National Press Club to express their concerns.

Protestors carrying placards demanded from government to take back the Pakistan Medical Commission ordinance to save the employment of above 300 employees of the attached department of the Ministry of National Health Services.

The protestors declaring PMC ordinance 2019 as a cruel act against employees of PMDC demanded from government to save the department.

They also urged that instead of implementing the new ordinance, the government should hold elections of PMDC under the ordinance of 2012.

'It is economic murder of 300 families,' said Amir Ahmed a class-IV employee of PMDC.

He said that the government has snatched bread and butter of the employees by dissolving PMDC in this way.

Another former employee, Sara Rubab said that new ordinance is in contradiction of Supreme Court order.

She said that after the implementation of new ordinance, private medical institutions have been given free way to charge maximum fee from students and parents.

She added that under section 49 of the new ordinance, entire employees of the PMDC have been dismissed from the services.

'It is violation of fundamental rights of employees,' she said.

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