Fight for rights: Nursing staff’s criticism enters second uninterrupted day
Nurses of open hospitals scream slogans while entertainment a proof in support of their final for improved compensate and up-gradation of executive posts outward a Karachi Press Club on Wednesday. PHOTO: ONLINE
KARACHI: As hours’ prolonged traffic with health officials yielded no result, a nursing staff continued their strike for a second uninterrupted day on Wednesday.
The strike has paralysed a sustenance of health services in open hospitals in Karachi and other districts of Sindh as around 1,000 nurses from opposite Sindh also assimilated a criticism in Karachi while others have selected to stay divided from their jobs. Due to a protest, dozens of operations have been behind in Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Civil Hospital, Karachi, Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and other hospitals in Karachi.
“More than 3,000 nursing staffers are operative in several organisation hospitals. Now, we are behaving puncture and complete caring section duties. If organisation turns a blind eye to a demands, we will totally go on strike,” pronounced Aijaz Kaleri, a boss of Young Nurses Association.
The protesting nurses, students and expertise members of nursing colleges have demanded that a authorities compensate their dress, mess, health and risk allowances as good as salaries and nursing stipends during standard with a Punjab government. “The nursing contribution in other range is Rs20,000 though here we get usually Rs6,800 per months, that is not sufficient,” pronounced a initial year tyro of a nursing college in Karachi. Another nurse, Zakia Bano, pronounced that Rs6,000 to Rs8,000 are given for dress, mess, health and risk allowances in other provinces. “But we usually get Rs900.”
The protesters also demanded up-gradation of a executive posts from class 16 to class 18. “For a final many years, a seats are not upgraded and promotions are delayed, due to that around 20 posts of nursing college principals are laying vacant,” pronounced Kaleri.
After a protest, a organisation constituted a cabinet underneath a organisation of additional health secretary to negotiate with a protesting health staff. The initial assembly was, however, not fruitful. “Health Secretary Fazlullah Pechuho is reluctant to speak [to us] and we have submitted a final to a additional secretary, who has positive to solve a issue,” pronounced Kaleri. “But we will not finish a criticism until and unless a organisation gives us a created guarantee.”
During a day-long criticism outward Karachi Press Club, a few nurses became comatose and were shifted to a sanatorium for treatment.
Additional health secretary Aslam Pechuho was of a perspective that they have listened a demands, that will be discussed with a arch and health ministers. “It will take some time to cruise their licence of demands,” he said. “We have requested these people to cancel their criticism since it creates problem for patients though they are dictating us to do all of their demands, that is not possible.”
Meanwhile, a protesting nurses have threatened to assail a CM House in a subsequent 24 hours if their final are not met.
Published in The Express Tribune, Feb 9th, 2017.
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