Punjab health dept to hire daily-wage doctors to keep hospitals

LAHORE/Rawalpindi: As the Young Doctors’ Association (YDA) Punjab chapter on Thursday threatened to shut down indoor services at all the public sector hospitals across the province from the coming Monday, the health department issued an order to hire doctors on daily wages to keep the healthcare facilities fully functional, besides terminating services of 12 more young doctors.

The health authorities have already cancelled leaves of all doctors and nurses in the province.

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