Chandigarh: The Association of Committee for the Struggle for Multipurpose Health Officer, which consists of a nurse of the National Health Mission (NHM), rises above the five-story building, health services (DHS), Punjab, in sector 34 on Monday and threatening to jump their demands not fulfilled.
About six nurses tried to scale the building parapet to jump.
One of the nurses suffered low blood pressure and was taken to the hospital, but then he returned to join the protest.
Around 11 o’clock in the morning, hundreds of nurses from all states blocked and came out of the building for more than six hours.
Office staff, including directors, locked inside and visitors were also not allowed to move until the police act and let them get out of the back door.
The nurses raised the slogan against the Minister of Punjab Chararjit Singh Channi and said they would end their lives if their demands for regularization were not fulfilled.
Led by Karanjit Kaur (Ludhiana), Ninder Kaur (Muktsar) and Kamaljit Kaur Patti, NHM nurses forced employees and health care and family welfare, Punjab (HSFWP), director to remain inside the building for hours.
Patti said, “We have suppressed our demands for regularization of our services over the past years.
We want to be brought equally to other rankings, but the Punjab government only provides a guarantee.
Today we put a siege into the building and will not move until we are heard and demands We meet.
“Many nurses were seen bringing their babies on their lap while protesting and raising slogans against the Punjab government.
Director is not allowed to leave the nurse who protested not allowing Om Prakash Gojra, Director, Health and Welfare Services, Punjab, to leave the building around 4pm.
When he came out, he was Gherrao by the protesters and was forced to retreat.
Seeing him back, nurses who protested celebrate their victory by clapping and increasing the slogan for their help.
Then, when the director told them that he had to go for a meeting to discuss their problems with CM, they let it go around at 4:30 a.m.
They knocked on the wrong door: Director of the Union Nurse protested knocked on the wrong door as an employee of the National Health Mission (NHM) was not regulated by HSFWP, said the Director of Om Prakash Gojra.
“So, they should protest outside the NHM office in sector 38 instead of sector 34.
They came to the wrong door,” he added.
The NHM office took place in the Prayaas Building in the 38-B sector, while the nurse protested Parivar Kalyan Bhavan in Sector 34.