* PRESS RELEASE- 26TH APRIL, 2011 ( PL FWD TO ALL MEDIA CONTACTS )* * *
*JSA MUMBAI SUPPORTS THE MAHARASHTRA NURSES DEMANDS* * * *Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, Mumbai strongly supports the demands of The Maharashtra Nursing Federation (MNF) for their long-pending demands of filling up the vacant posts at all levels, provide all the necessary medicines, equipments and training required for serving patients, special allowances to nurses at state government hospitals on the lines of central government and security to nurses (both in rural and urban areas). There are about 30,000 nurses participating in this indefinite strike today.* * *** * * * The health sector is extremely hierarchical, and state funding and other policy measures reinforce the status quo where nursing seems to be getting a bad deal. Nursing appears to be understood as the lesser of the professions in comparison to medicine and this hierarchy is practically upheld in the hospitals. Nurses in the administrative arrangement of hospitals are placed under the supervision of Nursing Superintendents, but for all practical purposes nurses are seen as subordinate to doctors, whereas they are actually to be treated as colleagues with different yet complementary services in the patients’ care. The absence of a wholesome care for patients-mental, emotional and physical - also adds to the rather ignorant treatment of nursing as unskilled work, which can be equated with menial jobs.*** * * * The role of the state has remained confined to the modification of curriculum, and the establishment of degree courses, and measures to meet the shortage of nurses. The number of nursing schools and colleges increased manifold int he state , but failed to meet the rising demand for nurses. The state has also not effectively addressed the issues of the pitiable service conditions and status concerns of nurses.*** * * *We demand that the State government immediately calls a meeting with MNF and adhere to their demands.*** * * *Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) a network of more than 25 organisations in mumbai and many , individuals, academicians and activists fighting for the people’s right to healthcare.* * * *For Jan swasthya Abhiyan* *Kamayani Bali Mahabal, **Mary Arokia,** Leni Chaudhuri, * -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1*<http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
