ANGRY OVER the poor security at nursing hostel at the Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital, nurses created an uproar at the chief medical superintendent's office and tried to break open locks of house-keepers' (wardens) rooms on the hospital campus.
The nurses led by district president of the UP Nurses' Association Safia Khatun were agitated over the fact that despite posting of three house-keepers at the nursing school hostel they were not staying at the hostel in nights. They said that the house-keepers had occupied rooms in a nearby building on the hospital campus, leaving about 150 inmates of the nursing hostel insecure.
They said there was only one security man to guard the hostel in night. The staff nurses also gheraoed the superintendent-in-charge Dr NBL Srivastava and demanded immediate instructions for the house-keepers to shift to the nursing hostel.
Safia Khatun said the SIC issued two orders to the house-keepers in this context but they simply ignored the orders. "There are three house-keepers in the nursing hostel but none of them is living in the hostel. The inmates are forced to manage everything on their own, whereas the house-keepers are drawing salary for the services they are not even providing," she added.
"Also due to poor management, the sanitary condition of the hospital has deteriorated in the last one month. The bedsheets and cutsheets coming from the central laundry contain blood stains and may cause infection to the patients. The new bed sheets are often replaced with the old one in the laundry because the firm handling the work has the contract of several hospitals in the city," she said. Nurses, including Anita Lal, also complained of non-payment of arrears and alleged that sometimes, the junior doctors misbehaved with them.
{{/usCountry}}"Also due to poor management, the sanitary condition of the hospital has deteriorated in the last one month. The bedsheets and cutsheets coming from the central laundry contain blood stains and may cause infection to the patients. The new bed sheets are often replaced with the old one in the laundry because the firm handling the work has the contract of several hospitals in the city," she said. Nurses, including Anita Lal, also complained of non-payment of arrears and alleged that sometimes, the junior doctors misbehaved with them.
{{/usCountry}}"We will be forced to paralyse the work if our demands are not immediately accepted by the management," they said.
SIC Dr Srivastava said the two house-keepers would be given three days' time to shift to the nursing hostel. Their other problems would also be discussed with higher authorities, he said.