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| Strike affects functioning for 5 hrs Paramedical staff of GMC&H protest for masks | | |
Arun Singh
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 25: The insensitive approach of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) administration towards its employees can be gauged from the fact that the paramedical staff deployed in emergency and general wards today went on brief strike in support of their demand of sophisticated mask effective in Swine flu which was being ignored by the administration from the last many days.
The paramedical staff of GMC&H including, Pharmacist, Staff nurses, Multipurpose Nurses, Lab assistant, X ray assistant, Nursing Orderly etc, was raising its demand for providing them with sophisticated masks while discharging their duties in emergency and other wards in the hospitals during H1N1 flu in the state for the last one week but their demand was not being given due attention by the administration. The paramedic staff of emergency and general wards today in the morning went on strike at 10:30 am and raised slogans against the administration alleging that despite knowing fact that the suspected swine flu cases are being reported in GMC with each passing day and many of them have been found positive but the paramedical staff is working at the risk of their lives as the decease is communicable.
Expressing their anguish towards hospital administration, some employees of paramedical staff, sensing danger of their lives from H1N1 virus, today left for their house without discharging their duties. The work in the emergency remained paralyzed for some time. However the work in emergency ward remained functional.
"Not to talk of the insensitive approach of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) administration towards the patients suspected of H1N1 flu virus but the paramedical staff deployed in emergency and general wards is also being meted out same treatment by not providing us with sophisticated mask effective in Swine flu," alleged one employees preferring anonymity.
Later, the administration woke up from deep its slumber after five hours of the continuous protest by paramedical staff and conceded their demand and provided the paramedical staff with N95 mask and later employees called off their strike at 3:30 pm and resumed their work.
Some employees alleged that height of discrimination with paramedical staff can be gauged from the fact that GMC&H administration was providing N95 mask to the doctors since the cases were being reported in the hospital and that too after every six hours as this mask is effective only for a limited period of times. "We have warned the administration that we should also be provided with new N95 mask after every six hours while discharging our duties," they informed. |
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