Nurses arrested while protesting in Bangalore

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 18:56

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Bangalore: Around hundred members of a city-based Nurses Association were on Wednesday arrested as they tried to lay a siege to the Bangalore Medical College demanding regularisation of their services, police said.

Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute Stipendiary Staff Nurses Welfare Association members, who were on a relay fast at Bannappa Park for about a week, marched to the BMC raising slogans against the managements of four hospitals, police said.

They were arrested when they tried to barge into the BMC, police said.

The stipendiary nurses had been working for the past five to six years in the four hospitals coming under BMCRI on a monthly stipend of Rs 7,000.

BMCRI has been demanding regularisation of their services for the last few years.

PTI

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First Published: Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 17:44

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Lokesh - Coorg
It is a same the staff`s who were serving with low salary and without any benefit has been treated in such a way by the Govt. It is a shameful act when they are protesting peacefully from past 10 days nobody went to talk to them but when they went to meet the authorities they were arrested when they are in uniforms. Are you showing your power on poor female nurses. Is this the way treating them who were saving our lives. Please support them.

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Nripinder - Bathinda Punjab
Regularize them

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Sunil - Delhi
Its a shame government is on contract hiring mode for all health functionaries including doctors ! While Govt. expresses concern for brain drain of doctors/nursess etc how can contract employment with no benefits attract anyone? All over doctors are now employed on contract basis with a rider until interviews for regular post is conducted which never takes place usually. Its a frightening situation to say the least where medical personnel work with no morale. The media and courts should take this situation seriously and highlight its problems.