SNMMCH Dhanbad: Sanitation employees’ strike leaves hospital stinking

THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK

Dhanbad, Dec 15: The indefinite strike of outsourcing sanitation employees, which entered its second day today, left all wards and emergency of state government-owned Shahid Nirmal Mahto Medical College Hospital (SNMMCH) Dhanbad stinking.

The agitating employees reiterated that they would return to work once the outsourcing agency Commando Securities officer gives a written letter of paying increased payment as per the agreement.

As per agitating employees, the agency agreed to pay Rs 300 per day while it pays Rs 250 only. The employees went on an indefinite strike on Thursday morning and had been sitting at the hospital gate.

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Agitating employees alleged that the outsourcing company takes Rs 500 per day for each staff from the government but pays them Rs 250 per head per day only. “The agency manager is not serious about our strike as even after 24 hours of agitation, he has not come to the hospital so far while we are sitting at the gate in this cold,” said the agitators.

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The state government has hired 150 sanitation employees from the Commando Security agency for SNMMCH.

Following the strike, medical waste has piled up in emergency, medicine, female ward, surgery, orthopaedics, paediatrics and other wards. Attendants of admitted patients said that the hospital is stinking due to medical waste that has been littered here and there in almost all wards.

SNMMCH Superintendent Dr Anil Kumar said that he had taken the matter seriously and written to the outsourcing agency to immediately ensure the hospital’s sanitation. “When state government pays the agency regularly, it has to get work done properly and timely,” said the superintendent.

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