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Kathmandu Tuesday May 01, 2001 Baishakh 18, 2058.
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True social
workers?
I am very happy for publishing letters on
social issues. This letter is in response to the newsreport "Nurses on Strike"
at the state-run Bir Hospital (TKP, April 26, 2001). I was highly disappointed after
reading the news. Such a strike, that too, at a public hospital ? What a shameful matter?
What will happen to those hospitalized and other outdoor patients, who come from far and
wide? Who will attend to them?
In the name of "utilizing" democratic
tools, nurses are on a strike, demanding that their allowance be restored. Whether their
demands are justified or not is a different question altogether, but how can they be so
incompassionate towards the old and the sick. Couldn't they resort to other means to raise
their voice. Their recent behaviour has only served to expose selfish traits and gross
irresponsibility. Have their professional ethics gone off to sleep? |
