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SDBNTC nurse ends starvation strike after agreement

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Kathmandu, May 20 A nurse nowadays ended a 10-day starvation strike after the administration of Shahid Dharma Bhakta National Transplant Centre signed a 10-point agreement with nurses yesterday. Diki Sherpa, a nurse at Shahid Dharma Bhakta National Transplant Centre, was staging starvation strike on the hospital premises demanding permanent status for contractual nurses in the hospital through internal examination process. A deal was signed in a assembly held among Executive Director of SDBNTC Pukar Chandra Shrestha, Deputy Chief District Officer Tara Pokharel at District Administration Office, Bhaktapur; president of Nepal Nursing Association, members from Nepal Health Workers Employees Union and nurses of the centre. After the agreement, Diki ended her starvation strike and other nurses have also withdrawn their sit-in protest. According to the agreement, the hospital shall conduct an examination of technical subjects for its nurses and health workers as part of the process for granting them permanent status. As per the agreement, the hospital may hire additional staffers through open competition in coordination with the Public Service Commission. Other points in the agreement include set uping an Intensive Care Unit and Urology department in the hospital, ahead of the technical examination.

The Leavement of Haematology and Cardiology shall be set uped later. Staffers and health workers who are much able to seem in the examination due to age factor and other causes shall have their contract resumeed, continually. While hiring additional staffers, the Public Service Commission shall help the hospital conduct the examination in a fair manner. In the event that the Public Service Commission doesn&t supply help, a committee to carry out the task shall be formed.

The Public Service Commission examination shall be held in November. The hospital shall supply free health treatment to nurses who were injured during the protest, and release staffers and nurses who were arrested during the protest. The post SDBNTC nurse ends starvation strike after agreement seemed first on The Himalayan Times.




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