LAHORE: Geo News has acquired the details of the doctors terminated by the Punjab government for staying absent without leave and persuading their fellows not to render their services in the outpatient departments.
According to details, out of 24 doctors terminated eight are from Services Hospital, one each from MAO Hospital, PIC, and Gangaram Hospital, while two are associated with General Hospital, and three each with Jinnah Hospital, and Benazir Bhutto Hospital Rawalpindi.
Earlier dozens of doctors were arrested after Punjab police stormed into the Services Hospital Lahore at a time when the protesting doctors' emergency meeting was underway.
The services of twenty-four doctors who actively participated in the strike were terminated.
According to the details, police entered the hostel after busted through the doors of the hostel and arrested many doctors who were holding emergency meeting to chalk out their future course of action.
Several doctors managed to escape by jumping out of the hostel's windows.
Earlier, Punjab Health Department announced to blacklist the candidature of all the doctors on strike for government jobs if they didn't end strike and resume their duties from Monday.