Jamshedpur, July 17: Over 50 personnel in the security department and house-keeping wing of Medica hospital today staged a demonstration in front of the labour commissioner�s office after the hospital management notified that the hospital will be closed down from September 14.
The security staff and the staff belonging to the house-keeping wing complained that salaries since the past three months have not been paid.
Located at South Park in Bistupur, Kantilal Gandhi Memorial Hospital Managed by Medica, better known as Medica hospital has transferred 31 nursing staff to Covid ward of the Kolkata-based Medica in April. Though all those transferred to Kolkata in the middle of spiralling Covid in the metro resigned from their service in fear, information had filtered through the disgruntled nurses that the hospital was on the verge of closure. Finally, the hospital management issued a closure notice on Wednesday evening.
“We have gathered here to register our complaints with the labour commissioner. We have been working at the hospital since the past six years. \Moreover, the outsourced agency which had kept us on behalf of the hospital management has not paid salaries for the past three months,” said one of the protestors.
