Tag: Nurses Strike

Bhubaneswar: Contractual nurses, appointed under the National Health Mission, today put their ongoing strike across Odisha on hold following discussion with the government. The nurses were on cease-work since December 18 demanding regularization of job and hike in salary. The agitating nurses on Wednesday agreed to put their stir on hold till March 2018. However, […]

Bhubaneswar: Distressed over the unending protest of the nurses at the capital city, National Health Mission (NHM) Director Shalini Pandit today gave a 24-hour ultimatum to the agitating nurses to resume their duties. The nurses today refused to call off their stir even after their union secretary urged them to postpone it for two months. […]

Bhubaneswar: Health services in several government-run hospitals were thrown out of gear as more than 2,000 contractual staff nurses, appointed under the National Health Mission (NHM), went on with their cease work agitation for the fourth day in a row. Demanding regularisation of their service and hike in salary, thousands of contractual nurses staged demonstration […]