Nurses to observe fast on International Nurses Day
On International Nurses Day, a day to recognise their contribution to healthcare services, nurses recruited through the Medical Services Recruitment Board and working on a contract basis in government healthcare facilities in Tamil Nadu, will observe a fast in support of their long-pending demands such as regularisation of services. Nearly 10,000 nurses recruited through MRB are working in government hospitals and government medical college hospitals on contract basis for four to eight years. There were only around 1,400 permanent nurses in primary health centres across the State but nearly 8,500 nurses were employed on consolidated pay through the National Health Mission, the association said. The nurses were demanding regularisation of services, grant of equal pay for equal work, reinstating nurses who were terminated from service and creating permanent posts in proportion to the number of beds as per recommendations of the National Medical Commission and Indian Public Health Standards.
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