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Irregularities in Salary: AIIMS Delhi Nurses call for indefinite strike, emergency services hit

Medical Dialogues BureauWritten by Medical Dialogues Bureau Published On 2020-12-15T10:00:52+05:30  |  Updated On 15 Dec 2020 10:00 AM IST
Irregularities in Salary: AIIMS Delhi Nurses call for indefinite strike, emergency services hit
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New Delhi: Seeking an immediate effect over redressal of their host of demands, including that related to the 6th Central Pay Commission, around 5000 nurses of the premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) went on an indefinite strike from Monday.

The call for stirke by the AIIMS Nurses Union after the AIIMS administration and health department allegedly refused their long-pending demands, affected the patient care services at the premier hospital. Besides the demands with regard to the sixth CPC, nurses have also been demanding redressal of issues such as the abolishment of gender-based reservation in the recruiting process of nursing officers and contractual appointments, enhancement of hospital accommodation, and cadre restructuring.

The strike was earlier scheduled to start on December 16. However, nurses gathered on the hospital premises after AIIMS Nurses Union announced an indefinite strike from December 14.

Delhi: AIIMS Nurses Union announces an indefinite strike from today over redressal of their demands, including that related to 6th Central Pay Commission. pic.twitter.com/9zOvs6rb4Z

— ANI (@ANI) December 14, 2020

Meanwhile, AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria in a video message termed the strike in the time of pandemic as "inappropriate and unfortunate".

"The Nurses Union had put in 23 demands out of which most of the demands have been met by the AIIMS administration and by the government. There is one demand that they have insisted upon and this is basically a perceived anomaly in the fixation of the initial pay as far as the sixth Central Pay Commission (CPC) is concerned, we are currently having the 7th CPC in is being implemented," Guleria told ANI."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.

Guleria further stated that the nurses union had put in 23 demands and almost all of them have been met by the AIIMS administration and the government. He pointed out that one of the demands is basically a perceived anomaly in the fixation of the initial payment as per the Sixth Central Pay Commission (CPC) is concerned.

The AIIMS director further informed that multiple meetings were been held with the nurses union not only by the AIIMS administration but 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 in 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 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.

Guleria mentioned 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.

However, AIIMS issued a statement stating the Nursing Union of AIIMS, New Delhi has gone on a strike in contravention of the direction of the High Court of Delhi... in relation to "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 meters radius of the institute boundary etc.

Our Union is ready for talks with the administration. We are feeling bad for patients but we're helpless as our demands haven't been met. We had given notice for strike a month ago but even then the administration didn't listen to our demands: President, AIIMS Nurses Union, Delhi https://t.co/aEjKJO4VWV pic.twitter.com/LpT06KjPLN

— ANI (@ANI) December 15, 2020

"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 Union Health Ministry directed the AIIMS director to ensure no disruption of nursing functions. In a letter to the director, PTI quoted the Union saying as no solid solution was taken by the AIIMS administration and rather their demand related to the 6th central pay commission anomaly was turned down.

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

The ministry also stated that non-compliance of the "code of conduct", laid down as per a Delhi High Court judgment, whereby no employee or staff or faculty member will cease work for any reason, will be treated as an offense under the Disaster Management Act, reports India Today.

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.

Also Read:Delhi: Demanding redressal of issues, AIIMS nurses threaten indefinite strike from December 16

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