Tag: Nurses

Police used batons to beat nurses who staged protest outside the Punjab Assembly building against the non-issuance of notification of increase in their salaries...

Nurses from southern-Punjab districts protesting for a pay rise and increased protection met with health department officials at the civil secretariat on Wednesday. Nurses...

A large number of staff nurses and students of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) School of Nursing boycotted wards and classes on Wednesday...

Punjab Health Secretary Jahanzeb Khan on Thursday directed officers to immediately prepare working papers for promotion of nurses into next grades. Jahanzeb was chairing a...

Empowerment of nurses, paramedics and janitorial staff at all hospitals through awareness and proper training is extremely crucial to prevent and control infections -...

She served for more than 20 years in public hospitals. The years were filled with hardships, disappointment, disrespect, personal achievements, abuses, accusations, and self-satiation....

Sindh government has revised service structure for nurses to meet the shortage of nursing staff in the government hospitals, said Sindh Minister for Health,...

ISLAMABAD - Nurses in Poly clinic, Handicap hospital and Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) staged a protest demonstration on Tuesday against the termination notice issued to them and demanded regularisation of their services.
A large number of nurses gathered in front of the National Press Club (NPC) to register a protest against what they termed injustice with them by the authorities concerned. They were holding placards inscribed with their demands and chanting

LAHORE - For the first time in the Sheikh Zayed Hospital's (SZH) history, Hospital Chairman and Dean Dr Saeed on Friday met student nurses to listen to their problems and motivate them to work harder.
During his address, Saeed said that he cares for nurses, as he knows that they are very important members of the health team and without their participation, no doctor could manage patients completely.
He urged nurses to show discipline with honesty and improve their

LAHORE - A large number of nurses from the Saeeda Waheed College of Nursing and Fatima Memorial Hospital held a protest in front of the Punjab Assembly on Thursday against non-payment of allowance for the past seven months. They chanted slogans against the administration for not releasing the due allowance.
"The administration got an eight-year service bond signed by nurses while it was not paying our allowance for the past seven months," said one of the nurses. The protesters

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Monday ordered the University of Health Sciences (UHS) to allow 91 nursing students of the Saeeda Waheed FMH Nursing College to appear in examinations starting from today (Tuesday). The judge passed the order on petition of Saeeda Waheed FMH Nursing College, filed through Training Programme Director Mrs Irshad Javed, submitting that the UHS had unlawfully denied permission to more than 30 nursing students to sit in

LAHORE - Nurses of the Children Hospital blocked the Mall today asking for a special allowance and monthly stipend.
Punjab Health Parliamentary Secretary Dr Saeed Elahi said the government is resolving nurses' problems on priority basis and for the first time, present government has regularized services of 7,500 nurses working on contract basis and has recruited 2,000 nurses recently. Dr Elahi, in a statement, termed the protest by Children Hospital's nurses as unjustified and

ISLAMABAD - Gross violation of recruitment procedures took place in Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) where nurses from Punjab province were hired recently on posts allocated for Sindh and Balochistan as very few applicants from those provinces had applied on their quota leaving many posts vacant.
"Violation of recruitment procedures was witnessed in PIMS as for 90 posts of nursing staff, almost all of applicants hired are from Punjab province with many of them on

LAHORE - A large number of nurses from the Mayo Hospital School of Nursing protested in front of the Punjab Assembly (PA) on Thursday against sexual harassment of their colleague during duty hours in the hospital.
The nurses chanted slogans against the administration for covering up the incident and stopping them from coming to the PA to register their protest. They demanded justice and registration of a first information report (FIR) against accused House Officer (HO) Muhammad

LAHORE: Dozens of nurses from Saeeda Waheed Nursing College protested on Monday in front of PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif's Jati Umra residence against the non payment of their monthly stipend. Scores of nurses came out on the Raiwind Road protesting against the suspension of their stipend for over four months and raised slogans against the administration and blocked the road for two hours.
\Begum Kalsum Nawaz talked to their delegation and assured them of fulfilling their demands

GUJRAT: Nurses in Gujrat staged a peaceful protest on the arrival of the Prime Minister and the Punjab Chief Minister against the harassment of employees at the hands of medical superintendent (MS), Aziz Bhatti Hospital.
The nurses were carrying placards and remained present at the main entrance of the Zameendar College for many hours, but their protest remained unnoticed. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani reached the function through a helicopter.
The nurses said that Dr