On International Nurses Day, Chandigarh nurses demand equal wages.
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- On International Nurses Day, NHM workers are looking for reasonable wages and protection covers.
On Tuesday, on International Nurses Day, medical attendants utilized with National Health Mission (NHM) in Chandigarh spilt out their burdens and difficulties they are confronting.
On the cutting edge in the conflict against Covid-19, NHM workers are looking for reasonable wages and protection covers.
As the Rishu stated:
Following 10 years of administration as an ANM (helper nursing and maternity care) nurture with the UT wellbeing division, Rishu gets ₹11,000 close by. She has two girls, and the compensation falls pitifully lacking.
However, she must choose the option to continue. A Kalka inhabitant, Rishu is among the hundreds on the forefront, setting their lives in danger in the pestilence.
“I was important for the group that studied Bapu Dham Colony for three days. At that point, I was posted in the review group of Sector 30 (regulation zone), Hallomajra and Mauli Jagran,” she said.
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Further, she stated:
“We are deputed for night obligation with no unwinding from the following day’s shift. There were days when after a 9 am to 3 pm shift, I work another shift from 5 pm to 7 am. At that point, without a break, I need to report for obligation at 9 am,” she said.
“We give our 100% to our work, but we get no additional support says Rishu:
Rishu, who comes from Kalka, is additionally thinking that it’s exhausting and requesting to drive. She should hitch a ride to her work station as no open vehicle is accessible.
“We give our 100% to our work. However, we get no extra help from the wellbeing division. No transportation, no consolation. Our pay rates are awfully small. I joined at ₹5,500 in 2009, and today I get just ₹11,000 close by.”
The UT admin, staff nurse Babita Rawat stated:
Pummeling the UT administrator, staff nurture Babita Rawat, who is posted at the common medical clinic in Sector 22, said, “They call us crown fighters, however how have they helped its heroes? Nothing.
I’m functioning as staff nurture with the UT wellbeing office since 2010. I’m paid just ₹16,000 while those utilized on the agreement are getting around ₹28,000.”
Further, Babita Rawat stated:
She said, “Give us reasonable pay rates so that we can care for our families and in any event give us protection cover to get our families monetarily on the off chance that something happens to us on the job during the pestilence.”
General secretary of CNEU Amit Kumar stated:
Featuring the issue, Amit Kumar, general secretary of CNEU (Chandigarh NHM Employees Union), said the staff would wearing dark strips during obligation hours to notice a dark day on May 13.
The primary issue is the insufficient compensations, he said, adding that an NHM nurture attracts ₹9,000 to ₹11,000, while the re-appropriated framework and normal representatives attract ₹28,000 to ₹75,000 separately.
