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Nursing officers crossed Haryana held a two-hour symbolic onslaught connected Tuesday to protestation against the alleged derogatory remarks by State Commission for Women chairperson Renu Bhatia against unit astatine the Civil Hospital in Kurukshetra.
Acting connected a telephone by the Nursing Officers’ Welfare Association, Haryana, the unit members observed a ‘pen-down’ onslaught from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. successful authorities hospitals. To debar disruption to captious care, 1 nursing serviceman was deployed successful each exigency and wide ward during the protestation hours.
Ms. Bhatia had made the alleged remarks during her authoritative inspection astatine the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Civil Hospital in Kurukshetra on June 7. She was reviewing the lawsuit of an alleged rape of a 15-year-old miss by a doctor. She reprimanded the infirmary medication and nursing unit implicit information lapses that near the insignificant unattended.
‘Will intensify protest’
The relation has demanded Ms. Bhatia’s resignation and threatened to escalate protests if nary enactment is taken. A 2nd two-hour pen-down onslaught with suspension of services is planned for Wednesday. It has besides threatened to motorboat a full-scale onslaught connected June 11, halting adjacent exigency services successful the State.
The protesting nursing officers said Ms. Bhatia’s alleged comments were an “insult” to unit who service patients time and nighttime and risked their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic arsenic ‘Corona Warriors’.
“If the chairperson of the Women’s Commission herself humiliates women, whom tin we expect respect from?” 1 protesting serviceman said.
The Janvadi Mahila Samiti and the Centre of Indian Trade Unions besides condemned Ms. Bhatia’s remarks and sought her removal, calling the behaviour unbecoming of a law station meant to uphold dignity.
The striking nursing officers person besides demanded an impartial enquiry into the Kurukshetra incident and enactment against those recovered guilty.
The relation has written to the Chief Minister seeking an apology from Ms. Bhatia.
