Pakistani doctors on hunger strike over lack of PPE
People waiting to break the fast on a road side in Peshawar, Pakistan, yesterday. Nearly three dozen doctors, nurses and paramedics contracted the virus in one hospital in the city of Multan. – EPA pic, April 25, 2020.
DOZENS of Pakistani doctors and nurses have launched a hunger strike demanding adequate protective equipment for frontline staff treating coronavirus patients, the lead organiser of the protest said today. Health workers have complained for weeks that the country’s hospitals are suffering chronic shortages of safety gear, prompting the arrest of more than 50 doctors who called for more supplies in the city of Quetta earlier this month.
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