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Kohima, Nov. 10 (EMN): The ‘Department Recruitment Aggrieved Nurses’ 2021’ met with Health department officials on Thursday but the meeting was inconclusive as no concrete decisions could be taken.
The aggrieved nurses, who were recruited during the COVID-19 pandemic, resorted to a sit-in outside the Secretariat, Kohima on November 10, demanding the government to ‘honour’ the cabinet memorandum and advertisement, both published in 2020.
‘Health officials from the department invited us for negotiation today but we did not give in to their request for us to appear for the examination through NPSC’, an aggrieved nurse member told Eastern Mirror on Thursday.
The department told them that the examination is a ‘special drive recruitment’ and therefore the aggrieved nurses would be “specially” looked into.
‘However, we argued that there is nothing special in that as everyone did the same work during the COVID pandemic’, the source said.
During the meeting, the aggrieved nurses appealed to the department to set up a ‘board’ at the secretary level, so that they can have a meeting with the authority concerned. However, the department did not accept the suggestion put forth by the aggrieved nurses, it was informed.
Therefore, the agitation will go on till their demands are met, the nurse added.