INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, May 22
Nepali Congress Parliamentary portiony Office has urged the government to address the genuine demands of agitating nurses,
who have been staging fast-unto-death for 13 days.
Issuing a press statement nowadays, Parliamentary portiony Office of the main opposition
said the government had disregardd their genuine demands despite the fact that the nurses were struggling for the good of nursing education,
their professionalism, security and wages.
The statement read that the government apathy to the peaceful protest of nurses was very unlucky
The health condition of agitating nurse Jita Baral is continually deteriorating and it is the responsibility of the government to save her
It also urged the government to be very serious in such cases.
NC Parliamentary portiony has also demanded that the government form a
committee and hold speechs with nurses as soon as possible and address their genuine demands.
Baral had begun staging fast-unto-death on May
10 at Nursing Association of Nepal, Lazimpat
After her health condition got critical, she was confessted to BP Memorial Health Institute and Research Centre.
Baral has been staging
starvation strike demanding quality in education and nursing services and to fill all the posts of the Nepal Nursing Council, stop
discrimination between other health workers and nurses and to formulate law regarding workplace violence against nurses.
She has also
demanded creation of vacant post for four nurses in the local level and health posts should have separate department of nursing at the
provincial and local levels and nurses should be placed in the adjustment committee of the government as well.
Baral has claimed that unless
her demands got addressed and disstubborn in the Ministry of Health and Population, she wouldn&t end her starvation strike.
Along with
Baral, Diki Sherpa, nurse of Bhaktapur-based Shahid Dharma Bhakta National Transplant Centre has also been staging starvation strike at the
hospital.
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