--strike enters 8th day, hospital services affected
BHUBANESWAR:
The contractual nurses’ last hope is the Chief Minister’s decision that will
finalise the proposal of regularising their service, said All Odisha
Contractual Nurses Association (AOCNA) president Gangadhar Panigrahy here on
Sunday. On Saturday the proposal of regularising the services of the
contractual nurses has been placed before the Finance Department and the department
will place it before the Chief Minister to recommend the proposal very soon, he
added.
“If the Chief Minister declares
to regularise the contractual nurses today, we would call off the strike right
after the declaration,” said Panigrahy. The Government should understand the
problems of the patients admitted in different Government hospitals across the
State, he said adding, engaging inexperienced nurse students to run the
hospital services any how in the SCB Medical
College Hospital
and other medical college hospitals are not the right thing.”
To bring back the nurses to
hospitals, the State Government should fulfill their legitimate right very
soon, AOCNA members demanded.
The nurses have 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
eighth day on Sunday while the services in Government hospitals across the
State were affected and patients lay helpless.
Due to strike by 2,204 contractual
nurses, services in the three Medical
College Hospitals
and other Government run hospitals were badly affected. The hospital
authorities tried to somehow manage work engaging private nursing students as
an alternative.
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