After a week-long strike by outsourced hospital attendants, the Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered the resumption of work. The attendants, demanding the release of pending arrears amounting to about ₹30 crore, were on strike due to unpaid dues covering the period from November 2018 to April 2024. The administration has accepted only a partial demand for 20% of …
Demanding justice for the 31-year-old trainee doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9, the indefinite strike of resident doctors continued on the third consecutive day on Wednesday. ARD opposes FORDA’s decision to call off strike PGIMER’s ARD on Wednesday opposed the Federation of Resident Doctors’ Associations’ decision to call …
Healthcare services in in the OPDs of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research were severely affected on Monday after resident doctors went on an indefinite strike to demand justice for a 31-year-old post-graduate trainee who was raped and murdered at a hospital in Kolkata. He added that the resident doctors will continue to perform emergency duties and no …
On the warpath against the PGIMER administration for delay in implementing equal pay for equal work, as many as 4,000 contractual workers went on strike from 6 am on Tuesday, majorly hitting hospital services. This was the fourth strike by different workers’ unions in less than two years since Dr Vivek Lal took over as the PGIMER director. Patients suffer …
The talks between the PGIMER administration and contractual workers, who went on a two-day strike earlier this month to press for equal pay for equal work, are yet to yield any results. “The PGIMER, Chandigarh, administration had agreed on April 4 to pursue the issue of payment of same and similar wage,” said Ashwani Kumar Munjal, chairman of the Joint …
Around 4,000 contractual workers at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research went on strike in response to a call from the joint action committee of the PGI Contract Workers Union, citing alleged indifference by the hospital administration. The union members and office-bearers convened outside Kairon Block to address the longstanding grievances of various contract worker unions affiliated …
