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| Harsh sits on dharna outside commissioner H&ME | | ‘Revoke Termination of Staff Nurses and Paramedics’ | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 16: Seeking revocation of termination orders of 181 paramedicos and staff nurses belonging to Jammu region, Harsh Dev today held a protest dharna outside the residence of Atal Dullo, Financial commissioner, Department of Health and Medical Education. The termination order is discriminatory in so far as it operates only against the health professionals of Jammu region to the exclusion of their Kashmir counterparts, said Singh. And secondly, the termination of frontline corona warriors at the present juncture was the most obnoxious and unsound decision ever taken by the department of H&ME, asserted Singh. He sought continuation of all health workers of J&K irrespective of the region to which they belonged as entire J&K was heading towards a dangerous denouement in view of fast spreading corona virus with its lethal ferocity. Allow the health professionals of both Jammu as well as Kashmir to continue as the Prime Minister has also issued directions that no employee should be terminated at this critical juncture, insisted Singh while addressing media persons. He also submitted a memorandum at the residence of the Health Commissioner. “Why at all should the health professionals engaged under a proper procedure under SRO 24 be disengaged at all? And that too in a situation when we are facing acute deficiency of such staff besides being confronted with the worst ever health emergency? We desperately need additional trained staff in our health institutions. The Indian nursing council has prescribed the patient nurse ratio as 4:1 but J&K’s present ratio is 30:1 which is grossly inadequate. And despite the acute shortfall we are still retrenching the health workers. Is it not a disservice to the community? The govt needed to answer its subjects”, asserted Singh.
Harsh Dev Singh further sought standardized PPE, N 95 masks and other essential kits to doctors and nurses who were rendering herculean services to humanity at the risk of their lives with many of them having contracted the viral infection. He expressed concern over non provision of ambulance facility to the patients suffering from fatal diseases and serious ailments by the hospitals thereby compounding the already volatile situation. |
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