KARACHI: Doctors associated with Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) staged a protest in front of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) head office on Monday, affecting the traffic flow on MA Jinnah Road in Karachi.Protesters, including regular employees of ASH as well as trainee doctors had been demanding instant release of their salaries and stipends, pending for the final four and 10 months respectively.Tardyr on following a assembly between Karachi mayor Syed Wasim Akhter and the representatives of protesters, it was agreed that salaries and stipends would be released from the current month of April.The mayor exurgent his deep regret for the chaos and problems faced by the ASH doctors and post-graduate trainees said degree things were beyond his control.He also announced that from the current month the pending dues would be cleared on a monthly basis as it would be difficult to make the payment in one-go.Akhter further promised that a contingency plan would be developed to avert circumstances causing hindrance in the timely release of salaries.He also urged the doctors to always keep into consideration the plight of patients.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source.
This first appeared/also appeared in https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/com/YEor/~3/gJdTzfKAvrI/452088-doctors-protest-hampers-traffic-flow-on-karachis-ma-jinnah-road