Today a total no. of 12 Nurses have started hunger strike with about 100 supporters who are sitting besides after performing their duties. Nurses of the hospital are protesting favoring their long pending and genuine demands which have not been met by the Chandigarh administration till the date.
One of the major demands of nurses is to adopt the central pay scale and central civil service rules as they are the employees of central government. Another major demand is to fill up the vacant post at earliest concerning the coming monsoon season when a sudden spurt of many disease would occur that would double or triple the patients and severity of the disease and death rate. the management is requested to provide alternate relief till the recruitment.
The Nurses are demanding to implement their up-gradation from 2006 and arrears from 2006 as it was an anomaly has been cleared. Another big demand is to change their designation from staff nurse to Nursing officer. Despite these there are several another demands for those they are protesting. convener of coordination committee Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Mr. Ajit Singh president of MC employees Union have addressed the nurses sitting and supporters. they stated that nurses demands are genuine and the demand of central pay scale is the demands of employees unions under coordination committee.
Mr Rakesh Kumar stated that he has called working committee for a meeting om 01-06-12 in which they would decide to call protest demanding central pay scale, central civil service rule. The hunger strike would continue till next decision of nurses welfare association.