Vijayawada: Contract, outsourced nurses demand regularisation

Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh State Government Contract and Outsourced Staff Nurses' Association has demanded that the government should regularise their services first and later conduct recruitment for the nurse posts.

The association leaders said the state government was contemplating to fill nurse posts in the government hospitals in the state.

Addressing media at the press club here on Thursday, association state president G Dayamani said the contract and outsourcing nurses had been serving for many years in the hospitals but the government was not recognising their services.

She said the contract and outsourcing nursing were doing invaluable service to patients in Covid-19 lockdown period in the hospitals and deserves regularisation of their services.

She said the association came to know that the state government was planning to recruit staff nurses and demanded that the priority should be given to the contract and outsourcing nurses in filling the vacant posts.

Andhra Pradesh government nurses' association state president Shanti Bhavani has extended support to the demands made by the contract and outsourcing staff nurses.

Shanti Bhavani said the contract and outsourcing nurses were doing overtime in the hospitals and they should be regularised. APNGOs association secretary Bandi Srinivas, nurses' association leaders G Bhavani, K Kotamma and others attended the meeting.

APNGOs association president N Chandra Sekhar Reddy and CITU leaders expressed solidarity to the nurses' association.