BHUBANESWAR: The All Odisha Contractual Nurses Association (AOCNA) has started indefinite dharna in front of the State Assembly from Tuesday demanding regularisation of services and hike in salary. The strike by contractual nurses entered the third day on Tuesday while the services in Government hospitals across the State were affected and patients lay helpless.
Hundreds of nurses came with a
procession from Master Canteen to Lower PMG here flaunting
placards bearing slogans against Government’s apathy to regularise their
services. Nurses from the SCB Medical
College and Hospital at Cuttack,
the MKCG Medical
College and Hospital in Brahmapur,
the VSS Medical
College and Hospital in Burla and
other Government-run hospitals took part in the rally and dharna protesting
Government inaction over their demands.
Due to strike by near about 2,000
nurses working in the three medical college hospitals and other Government
hospitals, services in hospitals were badly affected. The hospital authorities
tried to somehow manage work engaging nursing students as an alternative.
Supporting the cause of the
contractual nurses, the Hind Yuva Mazdoor Sabha and the Odisha Pipe Water
Employees Association said in a joint statement that the State Government
should fulfill the demands of the nurses before the services in the hospitals
in the State come to a standstill. If this attempt failed to impress the
Government authorities, the nurses would be forced to gherao the Health Minister
and the Chief Minister’s residences, the nurses threatened.
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