The Baloch Doctors Forum has denounced the continued suspension of salaries for medical college faculty and doctors, calling it unacceptable. The forum’s spokesperson warned that this neglect of medical institutions, particularly the newly established colleges in Makran, Jhalawan, and Loralai, will have a profoundly negative impact on both educational quality and public health in the province.
This salary suspension, however, is just one part of the broader exploitation that Pak-occupied-Balochistan has suffered under decades of oppressive rule by the Paki establishment.
The Baloch Doctors Forum highlighted that the few developmental projects claimed by the occupied-government remain mere lip service, failing to improve the dire situation on the ground. While the occupied-state apparatus continues to siphon POB’s wealth, its people are left without access to basic healthcare, proper educational facilities, or even their rightful wages. Medical colleges, crucial for the development of healthcare in the region, are left to deteriorate under the weight of indifference, with teachers and doctors facing financial instability due to months-long salary delays.
This systematic negligence is not just a reflection of administrative failure but a deliberate policy of suppression. The spokesperson of the Baloch Doctors Forum warned that the future of these colleges is at grave risk, with the development of medical education in POB coming to a halt unless immediate steps are taken. The occupied-govt’s proposed privatization of hospitals is another move that will further disenfranchise the already vulnerable Baloch population, serving only to deepen the existing crisis in the healthcare sector.
Doctors on the Frontlines of Neglect
The Paki establishment’s relentless focus on militarization in POB, rather than on addressing the region’s dire need for educational and health reforms, speaks volumes about its priorities. For decades, the Pak Army has used violence, coercion, and bloodshed as tools to subjugate the Baloch people, all while exploiting the province’s rich resources for its own gain. The people of POB have been treated as second-class citizens in their own land, with the healthcare and educational sectors being only the latest victims of this enduring Army-sponsored oppression.
The Baloch Doctors Forum called on the occupied-authorities to immediately fill all vacant teaching positions in medical colleges through the Balochistan Public Service Commission, a step that would not only alleviate the shortage of teaching staff but also address some of the fundamental issues plaguing the province’s healthcare education. The forum also warned of mass protests should the Army proceed with hospital privatization, emphasizing that the responsibility for any unrest would lie squarely with Islamabad and the senior officials of the health department.
The Baloch people, who have long struggled under the yoke of forceful occupation by the Pakistan Army, face daily injustices that go far beyond the educational sector. POB’s natural resources have been looted, its land plundered, and its communities subjected to a brutal reign of terror. The region’s citizens face inhumane treatment, economic marginalization, and rampant Pak Army-led atrocities, including forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and violent military raids on their homes.