Nearly 200 nurses go on strike seeking pay parity, health services paralyzed in Ludhiana
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Ludhiana: Protesting against the recommendations of the sixth pay commission and seeking pay parity, and payment of certain allowances among other assorted demands, around 200 staff nurses working at civil and government hospitals have gone on strike from Saturday.
Nurses under the banner of Punjab Nurses' Association decided to boycott work demanding the acceptance of their long-pending demands. On the third consecutive day of their protest, almost 200 government nurses carried on a protest march from the Civil Hospital to Jagraon Bridge on Saturday.
The employees working under the National Health Mission have already been on strike for the past one month. The demands of the protesters included issues like regularisation of their services, increase in salary to ensure pay parity and payment of certain allowances. As per recent media reports, the patient service at Mother and Child Hospital and Civil Hospital have been facing serious setback due to the ongoing protest of the staff nurses.
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