Lahore: Nurses' protest enters sixth day
The protesters have demanded the government to regularize ad-hoc nurses.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Nurses continue to protest outside Punjab Assembly for sixth consecutive day in Lahore while nursing staff of public hospitals of Punjab and Balochistan are holding sit-in against police torture.
According to latest reports, the police have placed barriers on both sides of Mall Road while nurses are chanting slogans against the Punjab government for not fulfilling their demands and police violence against them.
The protesters have demanded the government to regularize ad-hoc nurses.
Earlier, the Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif formed a cabinet committee under the supervision of Rana Sanaullah to fulfill the justified demands of nurses. The committee is directed to present the report within three days.
Earlier on Friday, Punjab police baton-charged protesting nurses outside Punjab Assembly.
Following the violent attacks by police, nurses of Mayo Hospital, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Allied Hospital and Civil Hospital of Faisalabad suspended services in all sections including emergency as protest.
Ad-hoc nurses have had staged a sit-in protest at copper road and when they advanced towards Punjab Assembly, police along with lady constables stormed at them using baton in a bid to disperse them. Police also took over 10 nurses into custody and escorted them to unknown location.
Several nurses were wounded trying to resist the violent attack; with one of them – who is pregnant – critically injured and was rushed to Ganga Ram Hospital.
Following the news of attacks on nurses, the nursing staff of several public hospitals suspended activities as protest and came out in solidarity with the affected nurses.
The nurses of Multan’s Civil and Cardiology hospitals also joined suspended the nursing activities to show solidarity with the affected nurses.
Young doctors and nurses in Khushab closed down the OPD to convey their protest to the authorities.
