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In Jamshoro Nurses boycott work at Liaquat University Hospitals.
« on: September 05, 2009, 09:08:36 PM »
In Jamshoro Nurses boycott work at Liaquat University Hospitals.

Hyderabad: Student nurses boycotted hospital work and classes on Friday in protest against the principal of the nursing school and demanded her removal.

They started the protest on Thursday in the Jamshoro and city branches of the Liaquat University Hospitals.

The protesting students reached the Civil Hospital and staged a sit-in outside the office of the medical superintendent. They also staged a rally, which started from the hospital and terminated at the press club where.

Komal, a student nurse, said that around 105 students were taking part in the protest against indifferent attitude of the principal who, she alleged, forced them to do extra work.

She said that the principal had banned their leaves. "In some cases, our colleagues are performing night and morning duties permanently while the principal forces us to perform night shift duty after performing morning shift duty the same day," she said. She said that the matron of the hostel, Aster Parveen also misbehaved with them and hurled abuses at them. She did not spare even their families, she said.

She said that the principal had kept TV meant for the hostel in her office. "We don't get food in the mess and have to prepare it ourselves," she said.

The secretary of health Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi, who was visiting the civil hospital when the students were protesting, held talks with the protesters in the presence of MS Dr Nawaz Abbasi.

Additional MS (general) Dr Ghulam Mustafa Abbasi dismissed the protest, saying the issues raised by the students were negligible.

He said that in fact the nursing school had been derecognised by the Pakistan Nursing Council and efforts were being made now to get the school recognised for which the principal had certainly tightened measures.

He said that her efforts had resulted in 80 per cent overall pass result of the school, which had been below 25 per cent until recently. Dawn