Nurses In Pune’s Top Hospital On Strike Against 12-Hr Shifts In PPE Kits

Mumbai:

Amid rising instances of COVID-19 in Pune, greater than 150 nurses on the premier Jehangir Hospital have struck work since Sunday over complaints of poor wage and 12-hour work shifts in PPE kits resulting in extreme dehydration. However, vital care and emergency companies on the hospital, which can also be treating coronavirus sufferers, have remained unaffected.

The nurses, led by the United Nurses Association, have said that their repeated requests to deal with their issues, chief amongst them being higher working situations amid the coronavirus epidemic, have been ignored by the hospital administration.

Now, along with the Jehangir Hospital administration, they’ve additionally written to the district collector and the municipal commissioner of Pune.

“Nurses’ duty should not exceed six hours with PPE kits, and adequate rest should be provided,” Jibin TC, state president of the United Nurses Association, has said in his letter.

Other calls for embrace strict adherence to quarantine and coronavirus testing protocols as per tips, separate lodging and threat allowance for nurses working in Covid wards, workers must be paid through the quarantine interval, medical protection for nurses and dependents, and improved nurse-patient ratio as per norms.

Mr Jibin added that the nurses had been compelled to strike work when some hospital officers reached their hostel and threatened them for elevating complaints.

Discontent amongst healthcare employees is a explanation for concern because the positivity price of COVID-19 instances in Pune district was above 20 per cent. 

For a number of days within the final week, Pune had reported extra recent instances of COVID-19 than Mumbai. The district additionally has the second highest Covid mortality price in Maharashtra, the state worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic in India.

To deal with the rising coronavirus instances, the Pune administration now plans to arrange three “jumbo facilities”, every with 800 beds that would come with 200 ICU ones. It additionally plans to carry nursing houses below the Covid care community.