The Young Doctors Association (YDA) Balochistan has announced a fresh protest rally for Thursday, July 16, to be held outside Civil Hospital Quetta from 11:00 a.m., as its ongoing agitation over the acid attack on Dr Mah Noor Nasir approaches its 37th day without a resolution from the provincial government.

The announcement was made in a press release (Ref No. 15) issued Monday and signed by the association's central leadership, including President Dr Hayee Baloch, Vice President Dr Adil Khan, General Secretary Dr Ali Jan Kakar, Joint Secretary Dr Irfan Bugti, Spokesperson Dr Sanaullah Baloch, Finance Secretary Dr Abdullah Tareen, Educational Secretary Dr Muzammil Panezai, and Office Secretary Dr Ghulam Murtaza.

The renewed call to the streets marks the latest escalation in a standoff that began in early June, after a female doctor, Dr Mah Noor Nasir, was attacked with acid while on duty at Sandeman Civil Hospital Quetta. The incident triggered a province-wide response from the medical community, with the YDA, joined at various points by the Pakistan Medical Association's Quetta Zone and other allied health bodies, shutting down outpatient departments across government hospitals and, briefly, suspending emergency services after police blocked a planned sit-in near Quetta's Red Zone.

The association's central demands have remained consistent throughout the campaign: the removal of the Balochistan Health Secretary and the Medical Superintendent of Civil Hospital Quetta pending a transparent inquiry, the formation of a judicial commission to investigate the attack, and the immediate implementation of the long-pending Doctors' Security Act. YDA leaders have repeatedly accused the provincial government of negligence and of stalling on all three demands even as the protest stretched past three weeks, then past a month.

With Monday's press release, the association is signaling it does not intend to wind the campaign down. By setting an assembly point and time, Civil Hospital Quetta, 11:00 a.m. on July 16, the leadership appears to be moving from department-level OPD closures back toward the kind of large public rally that marked earlier phases of the protest in June.

Balochistan Dispatch has sought to independently verify further details of the July 16 rally and will update this report as more information becomes available.