ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: Doctors at the Federal Government Services Hospital (FGSH) on Thursday passed several resolutions, asking Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to sack the National Assembly (NA) Deputy Secretary Tariq Khakwani and the federal communication secretary for threatening them and making false accusations.

One of the resolutions also appealed to the Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar to take suo motu action against the government officials.

The doctors also submitted separate applications in the National Assembly and Senate secretariats at 2pm, requesting the offices to help them in getting justice and to redress their grievances.

The resolutions were passed during speeches delivered by doctors, who claimed that the NA deputy secretary threatened them with dire consequences.

However, the demands came as Additional District and Sessions Judge Nisar Baig granted interim bail to Tariq Khakwani’s two sons and three other persons, who are facing charges of harassing FGHS staff. The judge ordered each of them to deposit Rs15,000 as surety.

Lawyers of Gohar Ayub Khakwani, Salman Ayub Khakwani, Sheikh Mohammad Wahab, Abdul Majeed Khan and Mohammad Yahya appeared before the judge and sought interim relief for their clients in the case registered at the Aabpara police station.

Meanwhile, the doctors said the federal communication secretary, who is the father of NA deputy secretary’s daughter-in-law, during an official meeting alleged that the physicians manhandled his daughter, son-in-law and some other persons. They said the allegation was baseless.

Earlier, the FGHS doctors and paramedical staff went on complete strike and all the departments, excluding emergency, operation theatres, ICU and CCU, were shut down.

On the third consecutive day, patients remained the worst affected segment and their number rose from hundreds to thousands.

In a meeting of the doctors’ action committee held in the hospital, it was decided that the staff would go on complete strike, hold a protest rally at China Chowk and stage a sit-in to block the road.

More than 400 doctors and paramedical staff of the hospital, including senior doctors, along with colleagues from the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Capital Development Authority Hospital, Holy Family Hospital, District Headquarters Hospital Rawalpindi and Benazir Bhutto Hospital, participated in the Thursday’s demonstration, protest rally and sit-in.

The participants assembled at the hospital’s auditorium and later started marching towards China Chowk while chanting slogans and holding banners and placards that were inscribed with their demands to take action against the accused who assaulted their colleagues in the emergency ward on Saturday evening.

The protestors reached the road intersection at around 10:30am and there they delivered speeches. They also staged a sit-in from 11am to 12 noon, as a result of which the Jinnah Avenue was blocked.

After an hour, they started returning to the hospital and reached it at around 12:30pm and again gathered in the auditorium. The doctors against delivered speeches and passed the resolutions.

The doctors said the SHO Aabpara police met them on Wednesday and asked to end the protest. In reply the doctors demanded the arrest of the accused, which the SHO accepted.

The doctors gave a written assurance to the SHO that they stop the protest if their demands were met, but they were yet to materialise.