BHUBANESWAR: Contractual nurses’ strike demanding regularisation of services and hike in salary entered in second day on Monday. The services in Government hospitals across the State reportedly affected due to absence of the nurses. The nurses decided to sit in indefinite dharna in front of the State Assembly from Tuesday.
Members of the All Odisha
Contractual Nurses Association (AOCNA) ceased work from Sunday throughout the
State and sat in dharna before 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, 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.
“We need salary at par with the
Central scale, regularisation of our service and repealing of the contractual
system in nursing,” said AOCNA secretary Shivani Das, adding, “The dharna will
continue till our demands are fulfilled.”
Contractual nurses from all over
the State would converge in the State capital on July 17 and sit on dharna in
front of the State Secretariat. 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, they threatened.
However, Health and Family
Welfare Minister Prasanna Acharya said the State Government is aware about the
demands of the contractual nurses. “On salary difference, we have already
referred the file to the State Finance Department. To fill up regular nurse
post also, we will move Finance Department,” Acharya said.
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