NHM staff seek regularisation

Bathinda, November 29

Members of the NHM Joint Front Punjab protested at the Bathinda Civil Hospital on Monday. Doctors, clerks, staff nurses, laboratory technicians and radiographers also extended their support and suspended work for an hour.

They have been demanding regularisation. The protesters raised slogans against the state and threatened to continue their indefinite stir till their “long-standing” demands were met. A state-level protest rally will be taken out in Kharar on Tuesday.

NHM Joint Front state convener Narendar Kumar said: “In a symbolic protest on Monday, we clang utensils to wake the state up from its deep slumber and accede to our genuine demands… We demand that the government must consider the NHM staff for regularising their services among 36,000 contractual employees it has announced to regularise in the state.”

“Since, the state is continuing with its indifferent approach, we have given a call for a state-level protest rally in Kharar on Tuesday,” Kumar added. — TNS