Ministers statement red herring: Nurses

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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsThe contractual nurses on Saturday hit back at Health Minister Prasanna Acharya over his statement on steps taken by the Government for regularisation of their services, saying it was yet another tactic to dilute the issue and delay the process. The nurses said the minister’s announcement that the proposal for regularisation of the jobs has been submitted to the Finance Department was a red herring. There is no need for concurrence of the Finance Department for posting of doctors and staff nurses as per the Finance Department’s 2001 circular, All Odisha Contractual Nurses’ Association president Gangadhar Panigrahi said at a media conference here. The nurses have also charged the Health Department with failing to carry out the orders of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for creation of more nursing staff posts and recruitment accordingly. The State has a requirement of around 14,192 nursing staff while there are only 3,523 sanctioned posts, including ones for contractual nurses. The Chief Minister had held a high-level meeting on the issue in October last year and directed for creation of 6,963 posts along with pharmacists and radiographers, Panigrahi said. He alleged that the Health Department has not taken any step in this connection yet. Even as around 70 contractual nurses continued their hunger strike for the second consecutive day on Saturday, two of them allegedly took ill and had to be hospitalised. The hunger strike will continue till the demands are met, association leader Malati Tripathy said.ADVOCATES’ PANEL VISITS SCB: With the Orissa High Court expressing concern over deteriorating health services due to the nurses’ strike, the Advocates’ Committee on Saturday visited the SCB Medical College and Hospital to take stock of the situation. The SCB authorities have pressed into service nursing students from private institutions to meet the shortfall. Surgeries have been affected even though the hospital authorities have been able to manage the situation in the wards, amicus curiae PR Das said.first published:January 01, 1970, 05:30 ISTlast updated:January 01, 1970, 05:30 IST
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The contractual nurses on Saturday hit back at Health Minister Prasanna Acharya over his statement on steps taken by the Government for regularisation of their services, saying it was yet another tactic to dilute the issue and delay the process.

The nurses said the minister’s announcement that the proposal for regularisation of the jobs has been submitted to the Finance Department was a red herring. There is no need for concurrence of the Finance Department for posting of doctors and staff nurses as per the Finance Department’s 2001 circular, All Odisha Contractual Nurses’ Association president Gangadhar Panigrahi said at a media conference here.

The nurses have also charged the Health Department with failing to carry out the orders of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for creation of more nursing staff posts and recruitment accordingly. The State has a requirement of around 14,192 nursing staff while there are only 3,523 sanctioned posts, including ones for contractual nurses. The Chief Minister had held a high-level meeting on the issue in October last year and directed for creation of 6,963 posts along with pharmacists and radiographers, Panigrahi said. He alleged that the Health Department has not taken any step in this connection yet.

Even as around 70 contractual nurses continued their hunger strike for the second consecutive day on Saturday, two of them allegedly took ill and had to be hospitalised. The hunger strike will continue till the demands are met, association leader Malati Tripathy said.

ADVOCATES’ PANEL VISITS SCB: With the Orissa High Court expressing concern over deteriorating health services due to the nurses’ strike, the Advocates’ Committee on Saturday visited the SCB Medical College and Hospital to take stock of the situation. The SCB authorities have pressed into service nursing students from private institutions to meet the shortfall. Surgeries have been affected even though the hospital authorities have been able to manage the situation in the wards, amicus curiae PR Das said.