Nurses stage demonstrations across Tamil Nadu

The Tamil Nadu Nurses Empowerment Association on Friday staged protests across the State demanding that the State government withdraw its decision to recruit nurses to 4,724 vacant posts on a 11-month temporary contract basis. They staged demonstrations at government medical college hospitals, government hospitals and district health offices. Recently, the District Health Society, National Health Mission, Tamil Nadu, invited applications for the post of contractual/temporary staff nurses for vacancies in institutions under the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services, Directorate of Medical Education and Research, and the Greater Chennai Corporation for a…