Delhi: Nurses protest over pending COVID compensation, threaten indefinite strike
To intensify the protest, all the nursing officers will come out for 2 hours and register a protest across the hospitals from January 27.;
New Delhi: The nurses' unions of Delhi government-run hospitals on Monday wore black ribbons to register their protest over pending ex-gratia which was announced by the Arvind Kejriwal-led government.
The nurses were protesting over the pending ex-gratia of eight nurses who died during COVID duty during the second wave the pandemic last year.
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Delhi Nurses Federation (DNF) Secretary General Liladhar Ramchandani told IANS that it has been more than a year the Delhi government announced that any doctor, nurse, or other paramedical staff who die during Covid duty, his or her kin will get a compensation of Rs 1 crore.
"But our eight nursing staff died during Covid duty in second wave, but ex-gratia is still pending," he said. The state government must show sensibility towards this sensitive issues, added he further.
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