Outsourced nurses seek extension of job contract

They had been recruited for a period of one year ending Match 30 this year

The usually serene Telangana Health Campus, Koti, witnessed heavy activity on Tuesday as a large number of nurses recruited on outsourcing basis gathered there demanding that their services be extended. The nurses said that they have performed duties at government hospitals right from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and wanted their job contract to be extended for a few more years. When there were delays in recruiting regular staff nurses, a government order (GO) was issued on March 21 last year permitting Director of Medical Education (DME) to recruit 1,640 staff nurses on outsourcing basis for various tertiary care hospitals for a period of one year — from April 1, 2020, to March 30 of this year. However, the nurses claimed that the recruitment advertisement was for contract nurses but they were given outsourced job.