Nurses’ stir hits indoor services

AMBALA, May 25: The indoor wards presented a deserted look in the civil hospitals of the twin towns of Ambala following single shift duty agitation by the staff nurses who staged dharnas and demonstrated in front of the hospitals on the fifth day today.

Operative surgery and the indoor services were badly hit. The indoor admission of patients came down in both the hospitals here. Likewise, the operative surgery has been restricted to only urgent cases. Principal Medical Officer Dr Mehta said the doctors had been put on rotational eight hours duty round-the-clock to attend delivery services. The casualty wing at the Ambala cantonment hospital is being run with the help of pharmacists and ANM students, according to the SMO V.K. Gupta.

FARMERS THREATEN AGITATION: The Bhartiya Kisan Kamgar Party will launch a state-wide agitation if the HVP-BJP alliance government failed to regularise the supply of electricity to the consumers, especially the farmers who have to transplant the paddy in the coming days. This was disclosed by BKKP leader Arjun Singh at a press conference here yesterday.

He said that the paddy nurseries had started withering away for want of sufficient supply of water as tubewells were not being energised without power. He said some villages remain without power supply for several days. The BKKP leader criticised Chief Minister Bansi Lal for backing out of his election promises of providing uninterrupted power supply.