{"id":71269,"date":"2025-04-19T14:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T09:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=71269"},"modified":"2025-04-19T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T09:16:31","slug":"young-doctors-associations-announces-closure-of-opds-in-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/young-doctors-associations-announces-closure-of-opds-in-lahore\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Doctors Associations announces closure of OPDs in Lahore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Young<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-young-doctors-association-end-strike\/\"> doctors<\/a> in Punjab have declared the closure of all outpatient clinics (OPDs) across the province on Saturday, according to media reports<\/p>\n<p>OPDs at Lahore&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Hospital and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/punjab-cm-maryam-to-launch-3000-bed-kalsoom-nawaz-hospital\/\">General Hospital<\/a> have ceased operations, but other government facilities in the city continue to do so, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals like Jinnah, Mayo, and Services Hospital are still active. The decision came after police dispersed Grand Health Alliance demonstrators yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the police used water cannons to disperse the protesting young doctors on Mall Road, causing two of them, including the president of the Young Physicians Association Punjab, to faint.<\/p>\n<p>When public hospital staff, led by YDA Punjab President Dr Shoaib Niazi, went from Charing Cross to the CM Secretariat, the atmosphere became intense, and a scuffle broke out between police and young doctors.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the YDA declared that it will relocate from Charing Cross to hold a sit-in outside the CM Secretariat to escalate its protest against hospital outsourcing.<\/p>\n<p>Following the news, a huge group of personnel, including young physicians, nurses, and paramedics, assembled after Friday prayers and marched to the CM Secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Young doctors in Punjab have declared the closure of all outpatient clinics (OPDs) across the province on Saturday, according to media reports OPDs at Lahore&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Hospital and General Hospital have ceased operations, but other government facilities in the city continue to do so, according to reports. Hospitals like Jinnah, Mayo, and Services Hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":40562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27984,17945],"class_list":["post-71269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-lahore-hospitals","tag-young-doctors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71272,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71269\/revisions\/71272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}