Nurses at NIMS continue their protests for the past one week

Protests by nursing officers at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences have entered a week, with nurses continuing peaceful demonstrations over unresolved demands related to service benefits, vacancies and pay parity, even as talks with management remain inconclusive.

Hyderabad: The protests by nursing officers at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) have entered one week with no signs of a settlement truce with the hospital management.

On Monday, before joining their regular duties, the nursing officers of NIMS held placards and participated in a peaceful protest for an hour. Within the NIMS campus, they took out a rally, urging the hospital management to address their long pending demands.

To curb the rally, the hospital authorities had to shut down certain sections of the NIMS campus by locking the gates. The move ended up angering the nurses, who continued to remain firm on continuing their protests.

A few days ago, senior doctors from NIMS management had held talks with the protesting nurses. Although the talks were positive, there was no sign of compromise, as nurses decided to continue to conduct their peaceful protests.

Some of the major grievances related to nursing officers is resumption of medical services at NIMS for parents of contract nursing officers, filling vacant posts of nursing officers, EL (Earned Leave) encashment, cadre review, providing appropriate status to NIMS Nursing College lecturers and giving them salaries as per AIIMS norms etc.

“It’s been a week since we launched our peaceful protests. As of now, there are no signs of the management agreeing to our just demands. We will continue to participate in protests till authorities address our demands,” the nurses on Monday said.