Tag: Nurses

315 ad-hoc nurses awarded 3-year contracts

As many as 315 ad-hoc nurses working in government run hospitals in district Rawalpindi have been awarded contract for three years in pursuance of...

That is not permanent enough for nurses

As government announces three-year extension in contracts of ad-hoc nurses, nurses continue sit-in, say it’s not enough Nurses’ representative says they do not trust government,...

Nurses protest in solidarity with their Lahori fellows

In solidarity with the nurses’ protest in Lahore, paramedical staff Saturday protested in front of National Press Club (NPC). More than a hundred protesters comprising...

Lahore nurses’ sit-in enters day five

LAHORE- The sit-in by nurses entered its fifth day despite Friday’s baton charge and arrests made by the police, a private news channel reported. The nurses,...

Protesting nurses divide over govt. assurance

LAHORE- The protesting nurses split into two groups on Wednesday in Lahore following the announcement by the Young Nurses Association (YNA) general secretary to...

BBH contract nurses without pay for three months

Medical nurses working in Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) on contract are without salary for the last three months. The nurses decided to hold a protest...

Eight Christian nurses ‘poisoned’

Eight Christian trainee nurses at the Civil Hospital were admitted to the hospital in a serious condition after they allegedly drank poisoned tea prepared...

250 Bangladeshi patients, nurses jailed over mutiny

A Bangladesh court has jailed more than 250 people including paramilitary guards and male nurses for joining a 2009 mutiny, prosecutors said Sunday. Scores...

250 Bangladesh patients, nurses jailed over mutiny

A Bangladesh court has jailed more than 250 people including paramilitary guards and male nurses for joining a 2009 mutiny, prosecutors said Sunday. Scores of...

Police use tear gas shells on protesting nurses

Police on Wednesday used water cannon and tear gas shells against nurses protesting outside the Karachi Press Club for rise in payments. Calling for government...

Young doctors, angry nurses and hapless policemen

Scores of MBBS students from different medical colleges along with the Punjab Young Doctors Association (YDA) ransacked the University of Health Sciences (UHS) after...

KP nurses call off week-long strike

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Provincial Nurses Association (PNA) on Thursday called off a week-long strike on assurances extended by the KP health ministry to address...

Nurses warn govt not to backtrack from promise

Contrary to their own decision, nurses took to roads for third day on Saturday creating crisis situation in hospitals and continued their protest and...

Nurses continue protest on third day

The offended nurses continued to protest on third day on Saturday, as prolonged negotiations with the government failed to reach a consensus in connection...

FIR registered against nurses for protesting on The Mall

The Civil Lines police late on Thursday night registered a first information report (FIR) against 16 nurses nominated for violating Section 144, which has...

Set us free!

The Charing Cross on The Mall once again in a state of commotion as protests blocked the road. While the nurses stole the larger...

Nurses, too, have had enough

Breaching Section 144 on rallies at The Mall Road, hundreds of nurses staged a day-long protest and sit-in at Faisal Chowk in front of...