Srinagar, May 13 (KNS): Nurses in Government Medical Colleges and its associated hospitals have pressed for their long-pending demands, including doing away with pay anomalies, nonpayment of non practicing allowances and other issues.
The nursing staff demanded that the government should end their grade disparity with SKIMS counterparts and pay Non Practicing allowance to them.
“Nurses and paramedics in GMC and its associated hospitals are paid in the same grade. Also our counterparts in SKIMS are paid much higher grade than us. They are also paid NPA,” Javaid Ahmad General Secretary of Nursing Association of GMC and associated hospitals told KNS.
Ahmad said that though nurses have more qualification including nursing degrees but they are paid in the same grade as paramedics.
“NPA is paid in all the hospitals in the country, only we are being deprived from it despite being eligible for it,” he said.
The association also demanded uniform allowance, creation of posts and fulfilling up of higher posts and regularization of academic arrangement nurses in the hospitals.
“Inspite of being regularsied, the government has decided to discontinue the academic arrangement services of nurses. Majority of them are working from the last six years, and it will be grave injustice with them if their service is discontinued,” he said.
The nurses also demanded that nursing college and AMT School should be headed by nursing staff than doctors.
“Doctors head as principals of nursing college and AMT School when they are not eligible for these posts. We demand that nursing staff must head these schools,” he said.
The nurses pitched these demands before Minister of State for Health and Medical Education Asiya Naqash during her visit to GMC on Thursday.
“I have assured them that the government would consider all the genuine demands. I asked them to come up with their grievances through proper channel so that their grievances could be considered,” Naqash told KNS. (KNS)
Their grievances would be looked into: Asiya Naqash