Employees have alleged that over 21 staff members have been terminated in the last few years for non-renewal of contract among other reasons
A month after one of the male nurses at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Science (ILBS) Rakesh Verma went on a hunger strike, leading the hospital authorities to assure changes to their employees, the entire nursing staff had again held a candlelight march on Monday followed by an announcement of an indefinite strike.
The eight-day-long hunger strike by Verma over his colleague- Anil Lamba- being terminated by the hospital due to the end of the contract, ended on Sunday, after intervention by Delhi Labour Minister Gopal Rai.
In a recent case, Jeena Joseph, a patient care executive (senior nurse), was issued a showcause notice on July 17, for raising her voice against the management in a meeting. The notice states that instead of putting across the employees' grievances, she used the occasion to display her contempt for rule and show disrespect to the authority and general affront to the management by using offensive language with hidden imputations, by leveling unsubstantiated charges against the management and instigating other employees.
Jeena, however, has something else to say. She was given a psychiatric consultation by the hospital without informing her in advance as a result of which she was declared "mentally disturbed'.
"On the meeting day, I only shared the grievances faced by employees. All the part where they have written about me threatening them to commit suicide with my family, I never said that. If I wasactually mentally disturbed, the entire office staff would not be supporting this strike," she added.
The entire medical and nursing staff of 650 will go on an indefinite strike Wednesday onwards after a meeting with the Labour Commissioner.
The employees have alleged that over 21 employees have been terminated in the last few years for ad hoc reasons.
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