Patients who visited the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) for out-patient consultations on Monday morning faced inconvenience as around 350 contract staff boycotted duties.
NIMS Technical and Non-Technical Contract Employees Union has four demands, including Variable Dearness Allowance (VDA) pending from October-2019 to be paid, promotion of around 60 people employed in unskilled category to be promoted into skilled category, 35 casual leaves per annum to be granted. They have called off the strike after holding talks with NIMS administration.
The employees work in out-patient (OP) counters, in technical posts such as gas room technician, x-ray technician, pump operators, ministerial staff, and other positions. The employees in protest said that the institute’s administration has earlier agreed to fulfil their demands, and that they have been waiting for over four months
