QUETTA: As the patients suffer, the boycott of outpatient departments (OPDs), in-door and elective services at government hospitals by the young doctors, protesting against the arrest of their fellow doctors, on Tuesday entered the second day.

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A spokesperson of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) said that the strike would continue until their demands were fulfilled.

The young doctors were protesting against the FIRs lodged against doctors and their arrests, the spokesperson added.

The young doctors threatened to boycott the emergency services at the hospitals too if their demands were not met.

On November 28, police had arrested 19 doctors and paramedics staff for staging a protest sit-in and blocking roads linking the city’s Red Zone with its other areas.

The doctors were protesting for a week near the red zone area seeking fulfilment of their demands. Earlier, the Balochistan High Court had also asked the doctors to end their protest sit-in.

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Poice had also lodged FIRs against the arrested people for violating the Criminal Law Ordinance (passed on November 27 that banned rallies, processions and sit-ins on streets, roads and highways) and coronavirus standard operating procedures (SOPs).