The four-day-old agitation by outsourced nurses at Gandhi Hospital demanding regularisation of their services was intensified on Saturday as they squatted outside one of the blocks and some of them even climbed the rooftop on the tenth floor where they remained till the night.
The police and senior medical officials of the hospital persuaded the striking nurses to call of the stir but to no avail. The nurses were unrelenting to come down till the hospital management responded positively to their demand. The day-long tension was palpable in the hospital.
The nurses went to the rooftop around 9.30 a.m. and refused to heed to the advice of senior staff even at 9.30 p.m.. They were sore that they made a living with insufficient salaries. An assurance given by Health Minister C. Laxma Reddy last year was not kept.
