Employees go on strike, E-hosp facility in Meerut hits a road block

Meerut | Tuesday | 19th March, 2019

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Our regular staff was told to make computerised OPD slips,” said Dr PK Bansal, chief medical superintendent, Meerut district hospital. Meerut: With employees of Meerut’s district hospital and Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial (LLRM) Medical College going on strike over pending salaries, the e-hospital facility here has hit a road block.The employees here were hired by a private company Silver Touch, which provides e-hospital facility. Despite this, we were asked by the National Health Mission employees to continue and we were told that we will be absorbed by them. However, we were asked to stop working after March 31,” said Shivam Tyagi, senior support executive,While 12 employees are working under this scheme in district hospital, 12 are working in LLRM Medical College. “We have also not got payment since January and now suddenly we have been told that our services are not needed..