Karachi Medical College's employees block exams over non-payment of salaries

KARACHI: Karachi Medical and Dental College’s (KMDC) employees here on Wednesday held protest demonstration and blocked examinations over non-payment of salaries, ARY News reported.

The protestors barred the college’s administration from conduction a paper for third-year MBBS students today and announced to boycott the papers from tomorrow.

The charged protesters also stopped the KMDC’s principal and other professors from performing their duties. The employees were demanding of the concerned authorities to release their salaries. They were of the view that they even could not pay their children’s school fee due to non-payment of salaries.

Later, the protesters gathered outside the medical college to stage their protest but police and law enforcement agencies stopped them to do so.

Earlier, Young Doctors’ Association (YDA), on April 12, had announced to observe strike and boycott of Out-Patient Departments (OPDs) on Saturday over non-payment of salaries.

Doctors were deprived of their salaries for the last four months at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital of Karachi.

The association had announced to record a ‘silent protest’ outside the Medical Superintendent (MS) Abbasi Shaheed Hospital over the issue.