Rogi Kalyan Samiti employees at IGMC, Shimla, reduce strike to 1 hour after assurance by Medical Superintendent

Tribune News Service

SHIMLA, February 17

The workers of Rogi Kalyan Samiti (RKS) at Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMC), who are on a four-hour pen-down strike, have decided to reduce their sit-in by three-hours after being assured by Dr Rahul Rao, Medical Superintendent (MS), IGMC. Now, workers will only be on a one-hour strike on Monday from 10 am to 11 am.

Employee president RKS Arvind Pal said a delegation of RKS workers met the MS here today. He said after the assurance of the MS, workers decided that they would reduce their strike by three hours on Monday. He said the RKS workers would once again meet Shimla (Urban) MLA Harish Janartha to discuss their demands.

“We will end our strike if our demands are met by Monday or else the sit-in will continue,” he said.

There are around 55 RKS workers at the hospital working as lab assistants, data entry operators, dark room assistant, in IT section and as Class IV employees. These workers have been demanding regular pay scale and are on a pen-down strike since Wednesday. The strike also resulted in inconvenience to hundreds of patients who visited the hospital.

Dr Rao said alternative arrangements were made at the hospital so that patients did not face any inconvenience due to the ongoing strike.

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