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A caller intake of 75 nurses astatine the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) has helped to proceed its regular enactment adjacent arsenic nurses belonging to the Tamil Nadu Medical Recruitment Board (MRB) Nurses Empowerment Association proceed to protestation for regularisation of salaries astatine the field of the nationalist healthcare installation successful Tiruchi.
A elder infirmary authoritative told The Hindu connected Tuesday that 75 nurses had been sent to MGMGH precocious by the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DME) successful effect to a long-standing request for expanding nursing unit numbers astatine the hospital. At slightest 60 person joined duty, with the remaining to travel soon.
“We person a full of 209 nurses, of which 140 are regular appointees and 69 are MRB recruitments. The caller nurses person helped america to tide implicit the onslaught concern for the clip being. However, we look guardant to having our MRB nurses besides backmost connected committee with america soon, arsenic their work is indispensable,” said the official.
From December 19, 120 members of Tamil Nadu MRB Nurses Empowerment Association moving successful the Tiruchi district, person been participating successful a peaceful protestation astatine the MGMGH campus, seeking the regularisation of their occupation arsenic promised by the DMK successful its canvass manifesto for the 2021 Assembly election.
“We were selected by the Medical Recruitment Board (MRB), astatine a starting wage of ₹7,700. After successive protests, this was yet accrued to ₹18,000 successful 2015. For the past 10 years, we are inactive moving connected the aforesaid pay, with nary added benefits. MRB unit nurses tin instrumentality maternity oregon immoderate different benignant of aesculapian permission lone nether nonaccomplishment of pay. We privation the authorities to resoluteness this disparity immediately,” an relation typical had said.
Their enactment was successful continuation of the agitation by implicit 2,000 nurses that was held successful Chennai connected December 18.
The protesters person been urging the DMK to honour its committedness made successful the 2021 canvass manifesto, to marque permanent, each nurses appointed with consolidated wage and enlistee the nurses who were appointed connected impermanent ground during COVID-19 outbreak and past terminated by the erstwhile AIADMK government.
