KOCHI: The nurses strike at the Lakeshore Hospital here attained a renewed vigour with various political parties holding marches on Monday in solidarity with the nurses. The nurses will carry out a march from the Nettoor Market to the Lakeshore Hospital on Tuesday.The CPM, CPI, PDP, Solidarity, various trade unions and corporation councillors will take part in the march which will be taken out under the banner of Janakeeya Samara Sahaya Samiti. “We will continue with the strike until the hospital management reinstates all the trainee nurses”, said Ramya Rani of the United Nurses Association, Lakeshore branch. Meanwhile, the hospital management has made it clear that the trainee nurses will not be reappointed. The right to appoint or dismiss the trainee nurses is the sole discretion of the hospital management, Lakeshore Hospital MD Dr Philip Augustine said. In the agreement which was signed after last month’s strike the reappointment of the trainee nurses was not included, he said. He also appealed to the nurses to end the strike and join for duty.
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