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Health employees intensify stir

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, JUNE 21. The Confederation of the Associations of the Health Department here has announced that staff of all government-run hospitals will go on mass leave on June 28 to protest the administration's move to permit private hospitals to run rural Primary Health Centres (PHCs).

The workers boycotted work for two-hours from 7.30 a.m. today. M. Kalaiselvam, president, said in a release that the Health department's move would set a bad precedent. The administration's alibi that this arrangement was in view of the shortage of doctors was "untenable". There should be speedy recruitment of doctors. Ad hoc arrangements could be made in the meantime, he said.

It also protested the closure of the nurses training centre. The centre should be reopened, as it had been helpful to candidates from middle-income groups to do professional courses. All the hospitals should function round-the-clock, the confederation said.

Relay fast

Part-time workers of the Health department began a relay-fast here. The workers assembled opposite the Government General Hospital in support of their charter of demands. They demanded the government to confirm the services of part-time workers and to employ them as sanitary staff.

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