Young doctors’ rage in Bannu is showing no signs of abating, as all departments at the city’s three MTI hospitals were closed on Wednesday, except for emergency, and the doctors relinquished all additional responsibilities and resigned.
In addition, as part of their ongoing strike, doctors have closed their private clinics.
Doctors told the media that hospitals did not have facilities for them, nor did they have medicines for the patients.
Patients had to go outside the hospital to buy medicines and have their medical tests done, according to them.
They went on to say that the Board of Governors (BoG) was made up of people who had no knowledge of health issues and were not informed about the problems that patients face in hospitals.
They claimed that instead of spending money on hospital machinery, the BoG wastes it on frivolous purchases and that whenever they expressed their dissatisfaction with the situation, they were labeled “problematic” by the authorities and victimized.
The doctors stated emphatically that they would not end their strike until the BoG was abolished.
