A Doctor’s Cry for Help
The Dark Reality of
Punjab’s Healthcare System:
A Doctor’s Cry for Help
Written with a
🩺broken stethoscope
and
a hopeful heart ❤️
Dr. Abus Salam Bajwa
&
The Exhausted Heroes of Punjab’s Hospitals
(P.S. If you’re a politician reading this—we dare you to spend a day in our shoes.)
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Whenever you enter a government hospital,
a recorded message assures you that
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has solved all problems.
But in reality, your patient is suffering for essential medicines, and you have to buy expensive drugs from outside.
Doctors are being forced into silence;
first, they were restricted from using mobile phones, and now it seems that anyone who points out problems is being removed.
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The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said, "The parable of the believers in their mutual love, mercy, and compassion is like that of a body; when one part of it is in pain, the entire body responds to it with fever and sleeplessness." (Sahih Muslim)
This Hadith teaches us that a Muslim society is like one body.
When one part of it is in pain, its suffering is felt by the entire society.
Today, when we look at Punjab's health system, it seems as if this body is under immense pressure.
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Imagine a family, a small picture of our society.
Their elders passed away due to a lack of basic health facilities because of the privatization of hospitals.
A young doctor from the same family, an important part of our community, lost his life in a road accident.
The reason was that the doctor was not provided with hostel accommodation, even though they are expected to work 24/7.
The children of this family are also deprived of quality education because schools are also being privatized.
In such a situation, a laptop from the government seems like a bitter joke when the basic necessities of life are not being met.
This is not just the story of one family; this is the reality of all of Punjab.
Doctors commute daily due to a lack of residential facilities and become victims of accidents.
After the privatization of hospitals, contractors allegedly cut down on medicine supplies and hire unprofessional individuals.
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Recently, the death of a young doctor working in a hospital has further escalated this crisis.
He knew that the hospital did not have the necessary medicines, but he was allegedly forbidden from telling the patients' families to get medicines from outside.
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Due to the lack of hostel facilities at the hospital, the doctor had to travel daily from his hospital to his village, which resulted in his death in a road accident one day.
There is an atmosphere of fear in the administration, where officials are afraid of losing their jobs, and because of this fear, they also silence the doctors who try to speak up.
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This crisis in our health system is not just an administrative problem but a moral one.
It is a test of our compassion, our sense of justice, and our ability to act as one united body.
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COVID’s Ghost Still Haunts Us
Remember those dark days?
When the air itself smelled of death? When doctors
masked, gloveless, and fearless
stood in burning wards, counting bodies because
there were no ventilators, no medicines, just raw pain?
We saved lives then.
Today? We’re fighting to save our dignity.
This isn’t just about healthcare anymore—yeh
Punjab ki sehat ki rooh ki ladhai hai.
Bhai, humein jaadu ki jhappi nahi… system ki marammat chahiye!
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"Doctors Are Not Magicians "
We’re not jadugar.
We don’t raise the dead with magic. Hum toh bas insaan hain—
But miracles need tools.
- No tracheostomy tubes? A girl suffocated to death.
- No ICU meds? Patients die waiting.
- No salaries for junior doctors?"Beta, seva ka sawab milta hai!" (Tell that to their landlords.)
Then a journalist writes about it—and suddenly, supplies appear!
Moral of the story?
Want medicine in Punjab’s hospitals? Make headlines first.
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VIP Culture vs. Reality
Sahiwal Hospital. Enter: Local MPA.
MPA:"Yeh ultrasound room mein parda nahi?
Junior docs scan kar rahe hain?
Takiya kahan hai?!"
Doctor’s Inner Monologue:"Sarkar, agar basic supplies nahi hain, toh ‘protocol’ ka drama kyun?"
Solution?Give juniors a "PROTOCOL SURVIVAL KIT" with:
✅ Clean bedsheet (if available)
✅ Pillow (dream on)
✅ A senior doctor (mythical creature)
✅ A curtain (optional, like government accountability)
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The Silent War Inside Hospitals
- ICUs without medicines?
"Adjust karo, jugaad lagao!"
- Mobile phones banned? Because nothing fixes bureaucracy like less communication.
- Unpaid interns?
"Seva is its own reward!"
(Try telling that to a hungry doctor.)
Meanwhile, politicians score points. We count corpses.
(Circuit whispers: "Boss, yahan toh bhookhe pet bhajan nahi gaa sakte!")
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Welcome to “The Lizard Law”🦎
Then came a new directive:
No phones allowed in wards.
Why?
To silence the truth.
To hide the shortages, the chaos, the cries.
"The Lizard Law"
A crawling, silent suppression of reality after political shifts post-election.
The Silence Within 🔇
Not the imposed silence from above.
The heavier silence is internal.
Fear. Exhaustion. Hopelessness.
Doctors started whispering less, not just to the authorities — but to patients too.
No miracle drugs.
No magic treatments.
Just the burden of knowing — and being unable to act.
The Final Plea:
Fix the System or Bury It
We’re not asking for miracles.
Just:
🌹 Basic supplies
(Atleast emergency drugs)
🌹 Fair salaries
(Doctors shouldn’t need charity.)
🌹 Accountability
(Stop blaming juniors for systemic failures.)
The End...
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Chief editor Dr. Waqas Arshad,
(Media Secretary, YDA Gujranwala)
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