1. Title of the Study:

Problems of young doctors in government hospitals of Peshawar.

2. Statement of the Problem:

The research will find out problems faced by young doctors in hospitals of Peshawar city.

Young doctors are facing different problems in hospitals. The issue is obvious from their

everyday strikes for their demands against administration. A report of The Nation newspaper

says” Patients suffer as young doctors continue strike (18 May, 2014 The Nation).” Different

unions like Young Doctors Association (YDA) have also been made in order to raise their

voice for solution of their problems. Even they refused to offer their duties at hospitals until

solution of their problems. The issue has been highlighted in both print and electronic media.

A report from Dawn Newspaper says “The Young Doctors Association of Khyber

Pakhtunkhwa on Friday announced to boycott duty in major teaching hospitals and tertiary

healthcare facilities of the province from today (Saturday) against delay in the

implementation of the proposed service structure for them (Dawn, 1 March, 2014).”

Although administration has promised to solve their problems, but still problems emerge

from time to time.

Young doctors have been facing these problems for last many years. Doctors are very

important for well being of society. If they suffer from problems, that will not be able to

serve people. That’s why their problems must be addressed by government and concerned

authorities. For proper treatment of patients and healthy society, satisfaction of doctors is

indispensible. For satisfaction, there must be a problem free environment.

It is very important to know that what are the problems which young doctors are suffering

from, because for solution of a problem, it’s nature is essential to be known. This research

will dig out young doctors’ problems and will provide recommendation for their solution.

3. Objectives of the Study:

What are problems faced by young doctors?

What are the flaws in policies made for young doctors?

To what extent is the performance of young doctors affected due to these problems?

Are young doctors satisfied by actions and steps taken by administration?

What are the reforms young doctors want to be brought in present policies?

4. Significance of Research:

In this research, the researcher is going to target problems faced by young doctors. Problems

in every field of life disturb the performance of people. Young doctors are facing different

problems which are affecting their performance. Once we diagnose the problems, then it’s

easy to solve them as doctors first diagnose problem, and then propose treatment.

This research will also be helpful in giving recommendations to administration for making

new policies, plans and amend the present ones. The research will also find out

recommendations of respondents (Young Doctors).

5.Research plan and Method:

Source of Data: Source of the data will be young doctors.

Tools of Data Collection: Tools of data collection will be questionnaires and

interviews (Interview Schedule).

Form of Data: Data will be in the form of recordings and questionnaires.

Universe of Data Collection: Universe of data collection will be Khyber Teaching

Hospital (KTH), Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) and Hayatabad Medical Complex

(HMC).

Sample Size: Number of respondents will be 60.

Sampling: The respondents will be selected by accidental sampling.

6. Budget:

Budget Items Number Per day

Expenditures

of a single

person

Per Month

Expenditures

of a single

person

Total

Expenditures

1. Personnel 5 500 15000/- 75000/- Rs

2. Equipment 1 Laptop, 1

Recorder.

40,000/- Rs

3. Maintenance Stationary,

photocopy,

books etc

8000/- Rs

4. Travel and Subsistence Taxi, petrol

etc

10,000/- Rs

5. Publication and

Presentation

Printing,

binding,

publishing

etc

10,000/- Rs

Total 1,43,000/- Rs

Thus total expenses of the study will be 1,43,000 rupees.

7. Time Table:

Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Preparation

of research

design

Review of

literature

Development

of research

instrument

Selection of

research

source

Collection of

data

Analyzing

data

Writing the

report

8. Expected Benefits:

The research findings will be helpful for young doctors, because through this research the

problems of young doctors will be brought into mainstream and may be solved.

The findings will also be helpful for administration to know about demands and problems

of young doctors and their potential solution.

Once the problems are found out, then it will be easy for administration to devise policies

and plans according to the demands of young doctors. The research will also include

some recommendations given by the respondents.

The research will be helpful for society in the sense that if administration fulfills demands

of young doctors and solve their problems, the young doctors will be sincere in serving

patients which will affect the environment of hospitals.

9. Ethical Issues:

Names of the respondents will not be disclosed.

Personal and questions based on bias will not be asked.

If data is needed to be recorded, it will be done on permission of respondent.

Not a single person, department etc, related to administration or any other area of the

research will be targeted during the interview.

10. Problems and Limitations:

The first problem I may face will be getting list and data of young doctors from hospitals.

As doctors have very busy schedule, therefore, it will be very difficult for me to get their

time for conducting interviews and collecting data.

It will be also very difficult for me to find out every respondent and convenes him/her for

interview, because I have no knowledge of wards and map of the hospitals; therefore, it

will be also very difficult for me to gain access to the right place.