Doctors on road to protest arrests

LAHORE - Reacting to the arrest of two doctors by local police the Services Hospital doctors Thursday morning left the institute and blocked the Jail Road for five hours causing immense traffic mess.

The hospital patients especially those admitted in the emergency and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) remained unattended for hours due to doctors’ hours-long strike. It was one of the longest protests of the doctors in the City.

A large number of patients could not reach the Services Hospital due to blockade of traffic on all the main roads leading to the institute, which has more hospitals both public and private in close vicinity.

Some three hundred doctors including females medics of the Services Hospital led by Prof Faisal Masood, the Principal Services Institute of Medical Sciences Lahore went on strike and gathered on the Jail Road to protest the arrest of institute’s doctors.