Nurses protest on fifth day on Lahore's Mall Road
Secretary Health has called representatives of the protesting group at 2pm today for talks
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Nurses’ protest at the Mall has entered fifth day on Friday while the protesters have split up in two groups with one ending the sit-in.
The nurses have boycotted emergency wards of different hospitals until their demands are met.
Administrations of the suffering hospitals have appointed junior nursing staff to fill in for the protesters. A faction of the protesters ended the demonstration after negotiation with the government late in the night.
Group of the protesters has warned the government of continuing with the protest until notification pertaining to acceptance of their demands is not issued.
However, Secretary Health has called representatives of the protesting group at 2pm today for talks. Charing Cross at the Mall and surrounding roads and streets are seeing rush for past four days adding to locals’ issues.
Nurses have also been demonstrating protests in other cities for past few days including Multan and Faisalabad.
Nishtar Hospital s staffers protested on Nishtar Road as they demanded restoration of service structure. In Peshawar, nurses criticised provincial government s alleged ignorance in the matter and protested against Pervez Khattak government.
Charing Cross has been in the spotlight, on and off, for decades as people seek to stage sit-in there since it has Punjab Assembly at a stone s throw. Earlier last month, farmers beloging to Kissan Ittehad and employees of Punjab Rural Support Programme staged sit-in for days until finally evacuating the site after government met their demands.
Another faction of farmers came rushing to the metropolitan with their demands few days after successful talks between Kissan Ittehad and the government.
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