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| HARSH PETITIONS PRESIDENT, PM, LT GOVERNOR SEEKING REINSTATEMENT OF TERMINATED HEALTH STAFF OF J&K | | |
Jammu, 12/04/2020: Flaying the J&K Govt for dismissal of around 181 trained professionals of Health and Medical Education Department of Jammu region including 97 staff nurses besides paramedicos during corona pandemic, Mr Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP and Former Minister has petitioned the President of India, PM, union health minister and Lt Governor J&K seeking the immediate revocation of their termination orders. And while the ousted employees were agitating against their arbitrary termination, the local administration of Kathua and Rajouri was resorting to intimidatory tactics with threats of putting the staff nurses behind bars regretted Singh adding that such an insensitive approach of concerned authorities needed to be condemned in the strongest possible words. Describing the govt response as highly draconian and irresponsible, Mr Singh questioned as to how could the front line warriors fighting against the deadly virus be disengaged at a time when they were needed most and that too on a pick and choose basis. The said health professionals including Staff nurses and paramedicos had been selected under SRO 24 by following a proper procedure on the analogy of similarly circumstanced health workers engaged under SRO 384. And while the latter had been allowed to continue for the last around ten years or so, the appointees under SRO 24 are being terminated in an arbitrary and despotic manner after one year of service and even prior to completion of one year. Not only that the H&ME Deptt had disengaged only the Health professionals of Jammu region to the exclusion of identical class of health workers engaged under SRO 24 in Kashmir region. More over the J&K Govt was applying two different sets of norms for the two regions of J&K thereby escalating regional tensions, said Singh.
Seeking the personal indulgence of the President of India, Prime Minister, Union Health Minister and Lt Governor J&K today, Mr Singh called for withdrawal of termination orders of all such staff nurses and other health employees so as to cope with the crumbling health care in the UT due to the highly deficient staff. He said that as per the norms laid down by the Indian Nursing Council, there should be one staff nurse for every 4 beds in special wards, whereas in normal wards it should be one nurse for every six beds. The patient: nurse ratio in J&K at present being 30:1, it was practically impossible for the nursing staff to cater to the medical requirements of patients and especially in the present scenario wherein the corona was spreading with its lethal ferocity. He cautioned to hold dharna outside the top officers of H&ME Deptt in case the draconian termination orders of Health staff were not immediately revoked. |
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