PGI NURSES THREATEN TO PROTEST, BOYCOTT WORK ON JUNE 14

LUCKNOW : The Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGI) staff nurses association has warned of starting a protest and boycott work if their demands for better accommodation for nurses serving in Rajdhani Covid Hospital (RCH) and an increase in salaries of the contractual nurses are not met by June 14.

The president of the PGI staff nurses association Seema Shukla said, “The nurses are getting infected after working in the Rajdhani Covid Hospital. They deserve better treatment, not the way we are being are treated today, where 2 to 3 nurses are forced to live in a room in the hostel. While the PGI administration is planning to give accommodation to doctors in five-star hotels, but nothing is being talked about the nurses, although more than 300 nurses of PGI have been infected with the virus while serving in RCH and other departments.”

She said, “The outsourced nurses are getting just (Rs17000) as salary, but they are the ones who are working in Rajdhani Covid Hospital. They need to be paid well as per the state government norms. The PGI administration has been apprised of the problems faced by the nurses time and again but they have failed to pay heed to our demands. If our demands are not met, then we are left with no option but to sit on ‘Dharna’ on June 14.”

PGI outsourced nurses demand pay parity

More than 400 outsourced nurses of Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) have demanded salaries at par with regular nurses. They also demanded preference in their regular appointment and gathered outside the administrative block of SGPGI and later met the institute’s director professor Radha Krishna Dhiman, who promised to look into their problems. “PGI administration respects the work performed by nurses and we will look into their demands,” the PGI director said.