Healthcare workers demonstrate to press their demands in Vadodara
VADODARA: Covid-19 patients had to face a tough time on Tuesday as nurses and in-service doctors in Vadodara joined the state-wide strike to protest against transfer of their state office-bearers.
At a time when Vadodara, like other regions of the state, was reeling under the impact of cyclone Tauktae, at least two dozen Covid-19 patients were shifted from referral hospitals and community health centres from rural areas like Dabhoi and Savli because of the flash strike.
From Dabhoi referral hospital and community health centre alone nearly 19 Covid-19 patients were shifted to Vadodara’s GMERS Medical College and Hospital, Gotri and isolation centres at Thuvavi and Darul Uloom as all the 11 nurses had joined the strike leaving nobody to attend the patients.
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.