Summary:
The stir by the nurses in the private sector for better wages had begun to spill on to the streets since 2009. Though the IRC meeting on July 11 revised the nurses’ wages to offer them a basic pay of ?17,200, with a gross salary of ?18,232, both the INA and the UNA had rejected the package. However, the Chief Minister held separate discussions with the nurses’ unions and the representatives of hospital managements before evolving a compromise formula acceptable to every one. “We are happy that we have been able to open the eyes of the government and society to the terrible exploitation that nurses in the private sector have been up against all these years. The issue of small hospitals and single-doctor clinics would be taken up separately and a solution evolved soon, she added..