Incident Reports

Manipal Hospital resumes services

2018-06-23

Gandaki, Kaski, Pokhara Lekhnath

Finally, after over a week’s disruption, services have resumed at the Pokhara-based Manipal Hospital today. After repeated talks between the agitating staff and hospital administration to end the strike failed, Social Development Minister Naradevi Pun Magar of Province 4 yesterday had directed both sides to resume services from today. All but emergency services were halted at the hospital since May 22 due to the agitation of hospital employees over the expulsion of four of their colleagues. The hospital management had fired its employees Ramesh Bohara, Nilkantha Bhattarai, Tek Bahadur BK and Alpana Thakur, accusing them of being involved in irregularities in the supply of medicines. According to the hospital director Dr Bijaya Singhi, over 200 patients received services at the hospital today. Following pressure from the provincial government to resume services, employee union leaders had gathered for a meeting today and decided to allow resumption of services and seek solution to the issue through legal channel. Bohara, one of the sacked employees, described their expulsion as the hospital punishing them for lobbying for better salary and perks. “We had time and again raised voice demanding better salary and perks, and they fired us,” he argued, adding they are now preparing to go to court. “We’ve asked our colleagues to return to work as we don’t want to disrupt services for long,” he said. Around 800 patients visit the hospital every day and the hospital has provided jobs to more than 800 persons. पोखराको मणिपाल शिक्षण अस्पतालमा कर्मचारीको आन्दोलनका कारण आज पनि ईमर्जेन्सि बाहेकका सवै सेवा ठप्प छन् । व्यवस्थापनले ५ कर्मचारीलाई विनाआधार निष्कासन गरेको भन्दै आन्दोलित ननटिचिङ स्टाफले सेवा ठप्प पारेका हुन् । नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी तथा कांग्रेस निकट कर्मचारी युनियनले निष्कासन गरिएका कर्मचारी पुनर्बहाली नभएसम्म आन्दोलन जारी राख्ने बताएका छन् । अस्पतालको फार्मेसीमा कार्यरत रमेश बोहोरा, टेकबहादुर बिक, निलकन्ठ भट्टराई, लेखा शाखामा कार्यरत मन्जु बिक र अल्पना ठाकुरलाई अस्पतालले फार्मेसीमा हीनामिना गरेको भन्दै जागिरबाट निकालेको थियो । अस्पतालका प्रशासन प्रमुख भानु भारद्वाजले आफुले काम गर्ने संस्थालाई नै घाटा हुने गरी बढी मुल्यमा औषधी आपूर्ति गरेकाले कारवाही गर्नुपरेको बताउनुभयो । आन्दोलित कर्मचारीले भने निराधार आरोप लगाएर हटाइएको बताए । तलब बृद्धिलगायत माग राखेर कर्मचारीहरु गत असारदेखि आन्दोलनमा थिए । मणिपालमा ६ सय ५० ननटिचिङ कर्मचारी छन् ।
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Other forms of non-violent protest
Primary Cause Issues related to policies and regulations internal to the government bureaucracy (e.g. civil servants wages, work conditions and promotions)
Actor 1 - Number of people 40
Actor 1 - Affiliations Health sector/health workers, doctors
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people NA
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Health sector/health workers, doctors
Actor 2 - Youth na
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