Ensure uninterrupted services at PGI, says High Court
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 9
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Central Government, among others, to ensure uninterrupted running of the patient care services at the PGI here.
The Bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Anil Kshetarpal also restrained all categories of contract and outsourced employees from striking work. The court’s intervention came after the Bench was told that contract/outsourced employees were abstaining from work since August 8, thereby disrupting the OPDs including in-house patient care services.
The Bench, during the course of hearing, was told by counsel for UT Chandigarh and the Union of India that the “demands of the members of the respondent No. 6 —Union of contractual employees will be considered with all positivity.”
Protesting staffers booked
The police have booked unidentified contract employees of the PGI for staging a protest against the PGI Administration near the research block on Thursday. A case under Section 223 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the BNS has been registered at the Sector 11 police station.
