The government is likely to come up with the draft of the new minimum wages notification for nurses in the private sector by next week and the nurses are waiting for government procedures to take their own course, Jasminsha M., president of the United Nurses Association (UNA), has said.
Addressing a press meet here in connection with the State conference of the UNA that begins on Tuesday at the Marine Drive, Mr. Jasminsha said the meeting would discuss among other things the project proposal of NRI nurses to begin a hospital in the State.
Nurses affiliated to the UNA in about 20 countries, including Canada, Oman, the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Ireland, Germany and Switzerland will be participating.
The delegate meeting that begins on Wednesday will conclude in a mass rally on Thursday, the foundation day of the association. V.S. Achuthanandan, chairman of the Administrative Reforms Commission, will inaugurate the rally, in which about 50,000 nurses will take part. The conference will witness the formation of a framework for an ad hoc national committee of the UNA. More than 600 delegates from the organising committees in nine States will participate in the meeting.
