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AIIMS Nurses’ Union Announces Indefinite Strike

Dec 15, 2020 | Pratirodh Bureau

FILE PHOTO: The AIIMS network is being sanitised before services can be restored as all hospital services, including outpatient, in-patient and laboratories, continue to run on manual mode

The AIIMS Nurses’ Union went on an indefinite strike from Monday over their long pending demands, including those with regard to the Sixth Central Pay Commission and against contractual appointments, even as the AIIMS Director appealed to them to call off their agitation and return to work.

As around 5,000 nurses went on strike from Monday afternoon, hampering patient care services at the premier hospital, AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria in a video message termed the strike in the time of pandemic as “inappropriate and unfortunate”.

“I appeal to all the nurses and nursing officers not to go on strike, and not to make us feel embarrassed about the dignity that we have as far as the nurses are concerned. I, therefore, appeal to all of you to come back and work and really help us get through this pandemic,” he said in an emotional message.

The strike was earlier scheduled to start from December 16.

Guleria said the Nurses’ Union had put up 23 demands and almost all of them have been met by the AIIMS administration and the government.

He said one of the demands is basically a perceived anomaly in the fixation of the initial pay as per the Sixth Central Pay Commission (CPC).

The AIIMS director said multiple meetings have been held with the Nurses’ Union not only by the AIIMS administration, but also by the economic adviser in the Ministry of Health, representatives of the Department of Expenditure and also the person who drafted the 6th CPC was also present at the meeting and that it was explained to them that the interpretation is not correct.

“…but because the Nurses’ Union were asking for a hike in the salary, it was said by the government that it would sympathetically look at this as a fresh demand and asked the Department of Expenditure to consider this,” he said.

“It, however seems inappropriate, that when a country is fighting a pandemic, when we are fighting for our near and dear ones to save lives and we know that we need to work only for a few more months and the vaccine may actually provide a solution… unfortunately, at this point in time, the nurses have gone on a strike,” Guleria said.

Besides the demands with regard to the sixth CPC, nurses have also been demanding redressal of issues such as abolition of gender-based reservation in the recruiting process involving nursing officers and contractual appointments, enhancement of hospital accommodation and cadre restructuring.

In a letter to the director, the Union said no solid solution was offered by the AIIMS administration and rather their demand related to the 6th CPC anomaly was turned down.

“Adding to this, it is shocking to know that the AIIMS administration decided to recruit nursing officers on contractual basis immediately which is against our strike demands,” the Union said in the letter.

Guleria said in his message, “Whatever issues you have we will try and resolve amicably and try and be sympathetic to your demand. But at this time of hardship and in this time of trial and tribulation please do not go on strike.”

He said that the year 2020 has been declared by the WHO as the year of nurse and midwife, as the world celebrates the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale.

“She also insisted that a real nurse would never abandon her patients and I am sure that even in COVID-19 a real nurse will really never abandon her patients or those healthcare workers who are now admitted in our hospital and looking for care,” he said.

AIIMS issued a statement stating the Nursing Union of AIIMS, New Delhi has gone on a strike in contravention of the directions of the High Court of Delhi… in relation to the “Code of Conduct” laid down, whereby no employee or staff or faculty member will cease work for any reason whatsoever or shout slogans or hold demonstrations within the campus or hold gate meeting within 500 meter-radius of the institute boundary.

“The various demands raised by the Nurses’ Union stand discussed with them for resolution. The Union has, however, abandoned many critically ill-patients on the demand of perceived anomaly of fixation of the initial pay related to 6th CPC of the year 2006,” the statement said.

The Nurses’ Union was apprised that their interpretation is not covered under the existing instructions of the Ministry of Finance, as clarified by the Department of Expenditure.

Tags: AIIMS, AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria, AIIMS Nurses' Union, Nurses' Union, Pratirodh, Sixth Central Pay Commission

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