YDA carries on strike 37th day

LAHORE: Young Doctors Association (YDA) prolonged strike continued even on its 37th day all across the province of Punjab including the capital city here, while the government remains adamant handling the ugly situation with iron hands, the patients seeking urgent medical aid kept wailing and weeping helplessly. The situation further aggravated as the senior doctors have also announced their support to the demands of their young colleagues, leaving the normal operations in the hospitals totally paralyzed, outdoor, indoor as well as emergency remained shut, seizing all options of the patients to get some sort of medical help. The cruel apathetic attitude of the government towards the ailing humanity in the province and its failure to pacify the enraged doctors by negotiating some settlement with the low paid financially crippled doctors costing precious lives of specially the poor, who could not afford luxury of getting treatments in five-star hospitals, an exclusive privilege of the ruling elites.