{"id":5575,"date":"2019-09-28T18:59:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T13:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umang.pk\/2019\/09\/26-doctors-booked-in-peshawar-following-violent-clashes-at-lady-reading-hospital-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2019-09-28T18:59:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T13:59:38","slug":"26-doctors-booked-in-peshawar-following-violent-clashes-at-lady-reading-hospital-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/2019\/09\/28\/26-doctors-booked-in-peshawar-following-violent-clashes-at-lady-reading-hospital-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"26 doctors booked in Peshawar following violent clashes at Lady Reading Hospital – Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After violent clashes the day before in Peshawar at Lady Reading Hospital during which 13 doctors were arrested, police recorded a case on Saturday nominating 26 doctors.<\/p>\n

The arrested doctors were transferred today from Peshawar to the Mardan prison.<\/p>\n

The case has been registered under Sections 148 (riots, armed with a deadly weapon), 149 (each member of the illegal assembly guilty of a crime committed in the prosecution of a common object), 186 (obstructing the public servant in the performance of duties public), 188 (disobedience to order the duty promulgated by the public servant), 337 (shajjah), 353 (assault or criminal force to dissuade the public servant from fulfilling his duty), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation).<\/p>\n

According to the police, the doctors who protested had "disturbed the peaceful environment of the hospital and dedicated themselves to throwing stones at police officers."<\/p>\n

Due to the throwing of stones, a policewoman and a journalist were injured, police said. In total, 15 medical personnel and eight police officers were injured.<\/p>\n

The Grand Health Alliance, a group of doctors, paramedics, nurses and other health personnel, had organized a protest on Friday against the Regional and District Health Authorities Act (RDHA) of 2019, which they describe as "nothing less than the privatization of government hospitals. " .<\/p>\n

In an unprecedented movement, the government had banned the gathering of five people and more at the LRH facilities under Section 144 to avoid any interruption in patient facilitation for a period of 10 days.<\/p>\n

GHA spokesman Dr. Hazrat Akbar had said yesterday that if the government failed to comply with its demands, including the release of the arrested doctors, the case record against Dr. Nosherwan Burki and the health minister, Dr Hisham Inamullah, the revocation of the RDHA Act, would end Dr. Burki's role in the KP health sector, and the removal of the health minister within 24 hours would boycott the duty, including emergency services. , throughout the province.<\/p>\n

At a press conference held today, doctors announced an extension in their ongoing boycott of OPD and other services in government hospitals and private clinics, which gives the government a deadline of October 1.<\/p>\n

Dr. Ameer Taj, executive member of the GHA, said that if the five demands are not met by then, doctors would completely boycott emergency services throughout the province. Doctors also demanded a judicial investigation into clashes with the police.<\/p>\n

According to the SSP (Operations) Zahoor Babar Afridi, "the law is the same for everyone and the matter is being investigated under the relevant laws."<\/p>\n

"The identities of the remaining protesters are being determined through recovered images," he added.<\/p>\n

What is the 2019 Regional and District Health Authorities Act?<\/h2>\n

In accordance with the Regional and District Health Authorities Act of 2019, which was approved by the PK Assembly on Friday, the government will establish health authorities at the regional and district levels.<\/p>\n

Federal and provincial governments will provide funds to each authority that will inform a policy board chaired by the KP health minister. Regional authorities will have the power to:<\/p>\n