It is such an ironic and unfortunate thing that trainee doctors in Pakistan are treated in the most humiliating and degrading manner. And in turn when these doctors come out of this low level training they do the same with their younger colleagues.
A trainee doctor in the federal hospital is paid a mere Rs. 10,000 in form a stipend. This amount is insufficient for anyone, let alone a doctor, who has to earn for his/her family and support them. Even a street hawker earns more than his every month. To top this all when doctors try to raise their concern about the issue they are shot down by their very own senior colleagues who are in administrative power and have by this time filled their pockets with money and are satiated.
The doctors at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences let their voice out last week. All they did was stage a token protest in front of the emergency ward for 30 minutes. Lo and behold the tyrant Executive Director appears on the scene and very shamelessly tries to address the gathering. his opening remarks must be made a part of history. He claims an imaginary podium and in his pretentious commanding voice utters, "Why are you protesting here like this. After all none of you is dying of hunger..."
If you ask me Executive Director Fazl-e-Hadi can afford to talk to junior doctors in this very tone. He is actually quite at home talking to junior doctors like this. He has been a barbie doll of the health ministry and that is precisely why his contract is extended every now and then in spite of the fact that he will successfully pass all senility tests if put through.
It is indeed strange that he has managed to keep his post when at this time his hospital administration is being probed in many cases of misconduct including those of letting sub standard drugs into the hospital. Since he is a staunch supporter of Pakistani style of living he has applied for a further extension in his tenure for the lucrative post of Executive Director of PIMS instead of taking the responsibility and having the moral courage to resign from the post.
It is thus that junior doctors at PIMS decided to go on a complete strike from today. No junior doctor worked in the hospital instead everyone staged a peaceful protest in the hospital premises. There are news on the TV telling me that their protest has born fruit and their stipends have been increased.
Such is the dictatorship in Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.
A trainee doctor in the federal hospital is paid a mere Rs. 10,000 in form a stipend. This amount is insufficient for anyone, let alone a doctor, who has to earn for his/her family and support them. Even a street hawker earns more than his every month. To top this all when doctors try to raise their concern about the issue they are shot down by their very own senior colleagues who are in administrative power and have by this time filled their pockets with money and are satiated.
The doctors at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences let their voice out last week. All they did was stage a token protest in front of the emergency ward for 30 minutes. Lo and behold the tyrant Executive Director appears on the scene and very shamelessly tries to address the gathering. his opening remarks must be made a part of history. He claims an imaginary podium and in his pretentious commanding voice utters, "Why are you protesting here like this. After all none of you is dying of hunger..."
If you ask me Executive Director Fazl-e-Hadi can afford to talk to junior doctors in this very tone. He is actually quite at home talking to junior doctors like this. He has been a barbie doll of the health ministry and that is precisely why his contract is extended every now and then in spite of the fact that he will successfully pass all senility tests if put through.
It is indeed strange that he has managed to keep his post when at this time his hospital administration is being probed in many cases of misconduct including those of letting sub standard drugs into the hospital. Since he is a staunch supporter of Pakistani style of living he has applied for a further extension in his tenure for the lucrative post of Executive Director of PIMS instead of taking the responsibility and having the moral courage to resign from the post.
It is thus that junior doctors at PIMS decided to go on a complete strike from today. No junior doctor worked in the hospital instead everyone staged a peaceful protest in the hospital premises. There are news on the TV telling me that their protest has born fruit and their stipends have been increased.
Such is the dictatorship in Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.
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