Lady Reading house officers boycott duty over withheld 15% stipend raise
Protesting doctors say 184 house officers at the Peshawar hospital are being denied the increase the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government approved for the province.
House officers at Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital have stopped attending duty and are staging a sit-in outside the hospital's administrative block, saying their monthly stipends have not been raised by the 15 percent the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government approved.
The protesting doctors said 184 house officers at the hospital are being denied the increase, which they said is being paid at other medical teaching institutions in the province. Express News reported that the doctors chanted slogans at the sit-in.
Dr Baryal, one of the protesting doctors, said the LRH administration was using a lack of funds as an excuse. The hospital should arrange the money for the increase itself, Express News quoted him as saying.
He said the boycott at this stage is limited to elective services. A complete boycott would follow if the raise was not paid, he said.
The protesting doctors called being left out of the government-approved increase extremely regrettable, according to Express News.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has approved a 15 percent increase in the monthly stipends of house officers, the doctors said. The protesters said the raise is being given at medical teaching institutions across the province but has not reached Lady Reading Hospital's house officers.
No statement from the Lady Reading Hospital administration was carried in the reports. The doctors' account of a funds shortage was the only reference to the administration's position.
UrduPoint also reported the boycott and the sit-in, describing the exclusion of house officers from the government-approved 15 percent increase as extremely regrettable.
How the reports differ
Express News carried the specifics: the figure of 184 house officers, the statement from Dr Baryal that the hospital should arrange the funds itself, and the warning that a full boycott would follow the present boycott of elective services. UrduPoint's report, available as a headline and standfirst, carried the same grievance and the same description of the exclusion from the 15 percent raise as extremely regrettable, without further detail.
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