Quetta doctor’s abduction: OPDs boycott continues

QUETTA: Doctors continued their boycott of OPDs on Monday, but provided emergency services in government and private hospitals.

Doctors in Balochistan are protesting the abduction of a fellow senior colleague Dr. Ghulam Rasool.

A complete boycott of OPDs in private and government hospitals is entering its sixth day. The boycott is being observed on the call of Pakistan Medical Association, Young Doctors, Baloch Doctors Forum and Paramedics Staff Association, while emergency wards in government hospitals are functioning as usual and patients are being provided medical assistance.

However due to the closure of OPDs, non-availability of the doctors in wards and the paramedical staff also abstaining to perform their duties, patients are the ones suffering the most and compelled to leave the wards as there was none to attend to their needs.

Balochistan PMA leaders said that they would continue their protests until the safe return of Dr. Ghulam Rasool.