RIMS emergency, casualty services shut down
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, December 12 2015 :
The emergency and casualty services of Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal were indefinitely shut down from Saturday 2 pm as protest began on the immediate regularization of the 22 male and female nurses who have been working on contract basis in the hospital since 2013 .
A male nurse on contract told Hueiyen Lanpao that 71 regular staff (male and female) nurses and 22 contract staff (male and female) nurses were recruited by RIMS in 2011.The 22 nurses have been working at the hospital since 2013 as contract employees and they have been demanding the authorities to regularize their services since the last two to three years.
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He said that written test for recruiting 116 regular staff nurses in RIMS, was held on Saturday.
However, the authorities had sidelined the demand to regularize the services of the 22 contract employees along with the 116 regular staff nurses to be recruited.
"Instead of listening to their demand, RIMS authority had asked the contract employees to sit in the written test which was held on Saturday.
The emergency and casualty services of RIMS will be indefinitely shut down until the authorities assure to regularize the services of the 22 contract employees", said the contract male nurse.