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Nurses? stir hits SRNH services
Patients' services remained partially affected due to work boycott by over 140 nurses and ward sisters at the Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital (SRNH) here on Friday. Few surgeries were also cancelled due to non-availability of nurses who were protesting against the apathetic attitude of hospital administration towards their problems.In the absence of nurses, the junior doctors and ward boys arranged medicines and injections for the patients. In most of the wards the bed sheets were not changed.
Patients' services remained partially affected due to work boycott by over 140 nurses and ward sisters at the Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital (SRNH) here on Friday.
Few surgeries were also cancelled due to non-availability of nurses who were protesting against the apathetic attitude of hospital administration towards their problems.
In the absence of nurses, the junior doctors and ward boys arranged medicines and injections for the patients. In most of the wards the bed sheets were not changed. However, the patients admitted to the surgical emergency and orthopaedic ward informed that the bed sheets in their ward has not been changed for the last four days.
The nurses also closed the medicine store due to which the attendants of serious patients were forced to bring medicines from outside the hospital. The PP OT also reportedly remained closed and few women who came for family planning were returned.
Most of the patients were not aware of the nurses strike and were seen waiting for ward sisters to get injection or IV fluid changed. The nurses under the banner of District Nurses Association also gheraoed the Superintendent-in-Charge and asked him to take immediate steps to address their problems.
They were agitated over the arbitrary electricity bill charged by the hospital management from them. Nurses Association district president Safia Khatun said they are forced to pay Rs 973 as electricity bill for Type III quarter in the hospital campus. The bill is not charged on the basis of meter reading. Rather on the basis of number of rooms allotted, she said. "We are not on strike and the moment our demands are fulfilled we will resume our duty," she further stated.
Superintendent-in-Charge Dr NBL Srivastava assured the nurses of taking strict action against the clerk who demanded money for transferring official papers of a nurse. He said the residential problem faced by nurses will also be solved.
Meanwhile, after the assurance of MLN Medical College principal that from next month electricity bill will be charged on the basis of meter reading the nurses resumed their duty in late evening. "The principal asked us to install individual meters in our quarters within a month so that bills could be charged on the basis of units consumed," said nurse association district president.
