Patients suffer as doctors strike continues for months

Patients continue to suffer due to the prolonged strike of doctors in the government hospital in Shangla.
Patients visiting the district headquarters hospital in Alpuri told reporters that they have faced difficulties as doctors on duty absent from the hospital, while present staff advised them to go to the private clinics of the doctors.
They claimed that doctors are now running their private clinics and receiving high fees for examination and also charge for tests and X-rays.