The government, after consulting stakeholders from the protesting hospitals and medical colleges, reached an agreement on Sunday morning to pay the protesting employees the same wages as government nurses.
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Universal Medical College in Bhairahawa, where emergency services, including those at the hospital, were suspended for two weeks due to protests by nursing and paramedical staff, has resumed full operations from Sunday afternoon.
The hospital administration held a press conference on Sunday evening and announced that all services, including emergency services, which had been suspended since Kartik 20 due to the strike by the nurses and paramedics working there, would resume operations from noon. According to Suraj Poudel, Chief Financial Officer of the hospital, the employees initially made four demands, including remuneration at the same level as government hospitals. During this period, talks were held repeatedly between the agitating employees and the teaching hospital administration to resolve the problem.
The employees had added 12 points to their demands during the protest. Although the hospital was ready to fulfill 11 of the employees' demands during the talks and discussions, the issue of remuneration remained pending. The government had also formed a task force to address the demand.
The government, after consulting stakeholders from the agitating hospitals and medical colleges, reached an agreement on Sunday morning to provide the agitating employees with remuneration at the same level as government nurses. Poudel said that the protest program ended after the agitating employees gathered and informed them that they were ready to provide the remuneration immediately after the agreement.
‘All services of the hospital have been operational since Sunday afternoon,’ he said, ‘For the first time in the history of Universal Medical College, even emergency services were suspended for two weeks. This has affected not only the teaching hospital but also the general public.’
He said that services were provided only to employees admitted to the hospital during this period. He hoped that this was the first such movement and that it would be the last. There are 200 employees working in the hospital, including nurses and paramedics.
