Healthcare workers protesting outside GMERS on Wednesday
Vadodara: Healthcare workers in the forefront of the battle against Covid-19 have started protests across Gujarat. After the 24 hours ultimatum given by it to the state government ended on Wednesday, the GMERS Faculty Association, the body of faculty members of all the eight GMERS Medical Colleges of the state, boycotted Covid-19 duties from Wednesday noon.
On International Nurses Day, the GMERS Nurses Association at GMERS Medical College and Hospital, Gotri too joined the doctors of the hospital in their strike to press for their long pending demands. The United Nurses Forum (UNF) at state-run SSG Hospital on the other hand has threatened to go on strike from May 18.