Nurses Strike

Medical services at private hospitals and nursing homes in Rajasthan were affected on Sunday after doctors went on a strike against the state government's proposed Right to Health Bill.

As nurses went on strike on Wednesday, with its focus on low pay, the extent of the crisis facing patients in the UK's state-run National Health Service (NHS) is being laid bare.

Services were briefly affected at various Delhi government-run hospitals as scores of nurses held a strike on Wednesday to put forth their demands.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was challenged by an elderly patient at a London hospital on Friday who told him it was "a pity" the government did not pay nurses more and he must "try harder".

Over 15,000 nurses of state-run hospitals in Maharashtra will go on indefinite strike from Saturday to protest against the state government's decision to outsource recruitment of nurses to a private agency, their association said.

Nurses at Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Education (AIIMS) called off their strike Tuesday night, after a meeting with hospital administration and hours after the Delhi High Court said they could not continue their "indefinite strike"

The nurses' strike at Delhi's prestigious All-India Institute of Medical Sciences cannot continue, the High Court said today after the hospital sought legal help to end it.

The AIIMS nurses' union, which has started an indefinite strike, today blamed the hospital authorities for the suffering of the patients. Stung by a widely circulated video of unattended patients inside a ward of the hospital, the striking nurses in a statement this afternoon, said the hospital authorities are putting the patients at risk with thei...

Only patients and no staff could be seen inside a ward at Delhi's AIIMS hospital, the country's top medical facility, as nurses went on an indefinite strike citing a long list of demands including clarity on salary structure and a freeze on hiring on contract.

Private hospitals, nursing homes and diagnostic centres in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, extended support to the strike called by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) against the centre's move allowing post graduate practitioners of Ayurveda to be trained in performing surgical procedures.

Hundreds of nurses at the Hindu Rao Hospital and a few other North Delhi Municipal Corporation-run facilities went on an indefinite strike on Monday over their "pending salaries" for August-October.

Resident doctors and nurses of Delhi's Hindu Rao Hospital have began a strike today over non-payment of salaries for the last four months. For the last several weeks, 220 resident doctors and about 300 nursing staff have stopped working at the COVID-19 dedicated hospital.

Even as Kerala is seeing a continuous spike in COVID 19 cases, nearly 375 junior nurses across the state have launched a stir demanding that they be paid at par with other nurses for the work they do. These junior nurses or interns, on Compulsory Nursing Services at Government Medical Colleges across Kerala, refused to return to work without a pay ...

Amid rising cases of COVID-19 in Pune, more than 150 nurses at the premier Jehangir Hospital have struck work since Sunday over complaints of poor salary and 12-hour work shifts in PPE kits leading to severe dehydration. However, critical care and emergency services at the hospital, which is also treating coronavirus patients, have remained unaffec...

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation today warned absentee nurses and ward boys employed in civic-run hospitals that they would be fired if they did not did not show up tomorrow.

Medical services at private hospitals and nursing homes in Rajasthan were affected on Sunday after doctors went on a strike against the state government's proposed Right to Health Bill.

As nurses went on strike on Wednesday, with its focus on low pay, the extent of the crisis facing patients in the UK's state-run National Health Service (NHS) is being laid bare.

Services were briefly affected at various Delhi government-run hospitals as scores of nurses held a strike on Wednesday to put forth their demands.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was challenged by an elderly patient at a London hospital on Friday who told him it was "a pity" the government did not pay nurses more and he must "try harder".

Over 15,000 nurses of state-run hospitals in Maharashtra will go on indefinite strike from Saturday to protest against the state government's decision to outsource recruitment of nurses to a private agency, their association said.

Nurses at Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Education (AIIMS) called off their strike Tuesday night, after a meeting with hospital administration and hours after the Delhi High Court said they could not continue their "indefinite strike"

The nurses' strike at Delhi's prestigious All-India Institute of Medical Sciences cannot continue, the High Court said today after the hospital sought legal help to end it.

The AIIMS nurses' union, which has started an indefinite strike, today blamed the hospital authorities for the suffering of the patients. Stung by a widely circulated video of unattended patients inside a ward of the hospital, the striking nurses in a statement this afternoon, said the hospital authorities are putting the patients at risk with thei...

Only patients and no staff could be seen inside a ward at Delhi's AIIMS hospital, the country's top medical facility, as nurses went on an indefinite strike citing a long list of demands including clarity on salary structure and a freeze on hiring on contract.

Private hospitals, nursing homes and diagnostic centres in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, extended support to the strike called by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) against the centre's move allowing post graduate practitioners of Ayurveda to be trained in performing surgical procedures.

Hundreds of nurses at the Hindu Rao Hospital and a few other North Delhi Municipal Corporation-run facilities went on an indefinite strike on Monday over their "pending salaries" for August-October.

Resident doctors and nurses of Delhi's Hindu Rao Hospital have began a strike today over non-payment of salaries for the last four months. For the last several weeks, 220 resident doctors and about 300 nursing staff have stopped working at the COVID-19 dedicated hospital.

Even as Kerala is seeing a continuous spike in COVID 19 cases, nearly 375 junior nurses across the state have launched a stir demanding that they be paid at par with other nurses for the work they do. These junior nurses or interns, on Compulsory Nursing Services at Government Medical Colleges across Kerala, refused to return to work without a pay ...

Amid rising cases of COVID-19 in Pune, more than 150 nurses at the premier Jehangir Hospital have struck work since Sunday over complaints of poor salary and 12-hour work shifts in PPE kits leading to severe dehydration. However, critical care and emergency services at the hospital, which is also treating coronavirus patients, have remained unaffec...

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation today warned absentee nurses and ward boys employed in civic-run hospitals that they would be fired if they did not did not show up tomorrow.