Contract nurses, who were recruited through the Medical Services Recruitment Board (MRB) for COVID-19 duty in 2020, staged a demonstration on Monday against termination of their services.
According to an official communication, to manage COVID-19 pandemic, nurses were appointed on temporary basis with consolidated pay initially for six months from the reserve list of the MRB exam for nurses held during 2019.
Due to the rising COVID-19 cases, the contract period was extended up to March 31, 2022. In a representation, certain nurses said about 2,472 nurses, who had joined, were appointed based on merit and communal rotation among the reserve list and requested to consider them against the vacancies. The department went on to terminate the services of the remaining 800-odd contract nurses on March 31.
