HLive|New Delhi, : Today the All India Government Nurses Federation is on a relay hunger strike to February 27 to press for their demand to be paid all benefits recommended by the Seventh Pay Commission.
To join the strike nurses from UP, Rajasthan and other states march Delhi today. There are 15- 20 nurses on hunger strike.
It’ has been 40 years of my profession have never seen this much of negligence of nurses. Our pay made down grade, it’s totally opposite said G.K.Khurana, Federation Secretary General .
“We the Government nurses are more responsible as for every work we have to take the initiative in the hospitals” Khurana further added here.
The two-week strike will also see the nurses across India go on mass casual leave on February 26.
The nurses have demanded increment in nursing, risk and night duty allowances as per the Seventh Pay Commission, federation secretary general G.K. Khurana added
She said: “We deal with the deadly infections daily but we are not provided enough risk allowances. If the demands are not met, we will make the hospitals non-functional after March 15.”
Aruna, a senior nurse at the Hindu Rao hospital here, told “We want our payment to be as per the Seventh Pay Commission. Up until now all the pay commissions have been implemented without any problems. Why is the Seventh Pay Commission not being implemented for the nurses?”
