In an apparent attempt to bring to end the protests by the health employees or doctors, the Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Surjeet Kumar Jayani on Wednesday given an open invitation for talks.
At the same time, Jayani made it clear that all genuine pending demands would also be fulfilled. For the purpose, the Minister has issued instructions to the senior health officials.
Jayani, during a meeting with the representatives of all unions of the health department, called upon all the employees and officers of the Department “to focus on providing quality treatment and service to the poor people of the State” to make Punjab number one in health services.
“Government hospitals should be properly maintained and behavior of employees and doctors should be polite with the patients,” he added.
He maintained that health department has taken this initiative to call all the unions for the table talk to redress grievances and put an end to all the demonstrations by Unions due to which patients and common people had to suffer a lot.
Terming this as a “historic step”, all the union representatives expressed satisfaction for a patience hearing by the senior officers and the Health Minister.