The patients would face problems on Monday, as the employees of Hamidia and Sultania hospitals have decided to go on a strike to press for their long-pending demands; 1200 employees have submitted application for mass leave.
The demands include Departmental Promotional Committee (DPC) meeting twice in a year. As per the instructions of the General Administration Department (GAD), the meeting should be convened in every two year. Besides, recruitment of 450 nurses, risk and night allowances should be paid to all class 3 and 4 employees, enquiry of discrepancy in time-bound scale pay, increase in salary, arrears by Treasury and Accounts Department, regular deduction of EPF, conduction of enquiry in cases of five year departmental promotions among the major demands the employees of the union.
Staff nurse, lab technicians, pharmacists, X-ray technicians and other technicians, clerk and class IV employees of the three institutions would remain on leave on Monday. Eleven-point demand was raised by the association.
President of Medical Education Employee Welfare Association Rajan Nair said that along with the two hospitals employees of Gandhi Medical College would join the strike on Monday.