With doctors on strike, a patient lies on a stretcher unattended at Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, on Saturday. — Photo by Shahbaz Butt

PESHAWAR: Doctors of the provincial capital’s three major government hospitals on Saturday went on strike to protest the proposed laws, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Healthcare Commission Act 2015 and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Medical Teaching Institutions Act 2015, and announced their protest would continue till the clauses going against their interests were not removed.
The medical practitioners of the Lady Reading Hospital, Khyber Teaching Hospital and Hayatabad Medical Complex closed outpatient departments and operation theatres and suspended provision of diagnostic services to visitors totaling more than 20,000.
“We, the doctors, held meetings with the government representatives on Friday but the latter didn’t hint at accepting our demands, so we decided to go on strike,” Dr Taj of the Insaf Doctors’ Forum told Dawn.