In March 2022, the RML Hospital issued an order to abolish the services of 151 nurses hired on contract basis, stating that it had filled the vacant positions with permanent employees.
Month later, a pink slip was also handed over to the contractual laboratory technicians and LDC. Although he appealed against the order in tribunals and courts, their cases are at various levels of progress.
While Ravi was abolished with his case being sub-judicial, Suresh was restored on 24 August 2022 as a court stayed its ending for time.
According to a Parliament’s response by MOS (Health) Prataprao Jadhav on 13 December 2024:
Unfortunately, examples of contractual employees were suddenly abolished or salaries are not being obtained in central and state government hospitals and are not far from the middle.
In October last year, 1,000 nurses were appointed in various Delhi government hospitals Allegedly Complained about not getting three months’ salary.
Then, in July 2024, Delhi’s folk hero Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital Allegedly 51 abolished contractual paramedical employees, who were hired in 2021 to manage the Covid-19 crisis. In January the same year, LNJP was a contractual employee at the hospital. Allegedly He went on strike after delay in his wages for more than 10 months.
“Healthcare workers are rapidly being hired on a contractual basis; At least one person in every house is working on a contract, ”Ravi was worried. He said that he was doing strange work to maintain his house as he was waiting for the courts to decide his case.
At the same time, Suresh said that he would keep trying to get a permanent job in a government hospital because the difference is that salary is important.
