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While across the country, on one hand, married women are observing the holy Nirjala fast of Karva Chauth for the long life and unbroken good fortune of their husbands and are dressing up in the evening and waiting to see the moon, on the other hand, some such pictures have come to light which have exposed the administrative system. Regarding their pending demands, outstanding salaries and slow pace of promotion, the women employees of the Health Department adopted such a unique and surprising method of protest that even the onlookers were stunned. The women nurses, with mehndi applied on their hands, applied sixteen make-up like married women and holding a sieve and puja plate in their hands, started protesting outside the hospital premises. On the holy festival of Karva Chauth, this image of these women workers demonstrating unique anger against the government and the health department instead of their husbands is now spreading like wildfire on social media and is being discussed everywhere.
On one hand, it is a day to celebrate with family, on the other hand, these women health workers had to sit on the streets and outside hospitals to fight for their rights. The protesting women nurses say that they have been making rounds of the administration for the last several months regarding their legitimate demands, but there is no one to take care of them. Their major demands include timely payment of salaries, confirmation of raw employees, giving of Risk Allowance and long pending promotions in the nursing cadre. Nurses say that the government and the department are just wasting time by giving repeated assurances, due to which both the financial condition and mental peace of their families have been ruined. Under compulsion, they have to protest by sitting on dharna even on the day of their biggest festival.
The scene during the demonstration was very emotional and eye-opening. These nurses, adorned with beautiful mehndi designs, red-pink sarees and wedding symbols, were holding Karva Chauth sieve and puja thali in their hands. Talking to the media, the women workers said that they also wanted to celebrate this festival with joy at their home with their husbands, but their indifference and indifference of the government machinery has brought them to this situation. She sarcastically said that just as she looks at the moon through a sieve and asks for the long life of her husband, in the same way she wants to awaken the sleeping administrative system through this protest so that the future of her families can be secured.
Due to this sudden and violent demonstration of nurses, there was a deep impact on the medical system of government hospitals. Due to absence of nurses from OPD to wards, patients had to face huge problems for their treatment and medicines. Although the protesters talked about not completely disrupting emergency services, patients coming for routine checkups and tests had to wait for their turn for hours. Local citizens and relatives of the patients have appealed to the administration to resolve the demands of these women employees as soon as possible so that the general public does not have to face any inconvenience in health services.
As soon as the top officials of the health department and the district administration got wind of this unique and high-profile demonstration by women nurses on the day of Karva Chauth, there was a stir in the department. In a hurry, the administrative officials have invited the protesting leaders for talks. The officials have assured that considering their demands sympathetically, appropriate orders will be issued at the administrative level as soon as possible. At present, the protesting nurses have warned that if they get only empty assurances this time, they will intensify their agitation and block health services in the entire state.