Delhi HC directs AIIMS nurses on strike to rejoin work

Justice Yashant Varma, while dealing with the petition by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), observed that the strike would cause grave prejudice and seriously impede the working of the institution.

Indefinite strike by AIIMS Nurses Union

AIIMS Nurses Union has gone on an indefinite strike in response to the suspension of Harish Kajla, nursing officer and president of the Nurses Union

Flash strike by AIIMS nursing staff over night shifts

The nurses union has been demanding that night shift in the main OT should end by 7 pm as in other specialised OTs due to safety concerns while commuting to their homes in NCR

No more a female bastion: Men in nursing jobs

India saw its first batch of male nurses almost two decades ago. Yet, even now, the men who chose nursing as their profession find their gender is more of a talking point than the patient care they have been providing A woman dressed in a white caretaker’s uniform, her hair covered in a small cap, […]

Nurses urge payment of ex-gratia

Twenty months after Delhi Government promised to compensate families of deceased government health employees, the nursing staff is compelled to protest the non-payment of this financial aid.   Earlier this week, the nursing staff across Delhi Government hospitals protested against the pending compensation from the Delhi Government. The staff at GTB hospital, Lok Nayak Jayaprakash […]

‘No matter the effort, we are unable to make them survive’

Patriot speaks to nurses, who reveal how symptoms of the new Covid strain are worse this time – with hospitals in the Capital city short staffed, and many contracting the virus A couple of days earlier a video showing two Covid-19 patients sharing a bed at Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) hospital bore […]

‘Inappropriate’ strike called off

With a view to expedite resolution of issues, Delhi AIIMS’s nurses went on a strike, but soon enough it was called off Amidst a raging pandemic, 5,000 nurses of Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Education (AIIMS) went on an indefinite strike on 14 December, which to many seemed like inappropriate timing. The national,vice president, […]