Flight of staff may paralyse JNIMS
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, August 02 2011: Altogether 42 doctors and 211 staff who were working under Health Directorate at JN Hospital and later absorbed in JNIMS may come back to the Health Directorate using legal means.

In such a scenario, JNIMS would be totally paralysed with no staff to run it.

According to a source, the 211 staff absorbed in JNIMS included two UDCs, seven LDCs, two OT technicians, eight drivers, 50 staff nurses, eight X-ray technicians, 16 laboratory technicians, two laboratory assistants, five pharmacists, 54 ward attendants, 16 sweepers, one Ayah, one cleaner, two CSR attendants, one draftee, three laundry attendants, one Mali, three Massalchi, three peons, one ward boy, one assistant PS, one FTS, one ANM, one dietician, two dressers, one electrician, one ECG technician, two CSSD supervisors, one carpenter, two opthalmic assistants, three cooks and one OR assistant.

The main reasons for the likely return of the 42 doctors and 211 staff to Health Directorate are unequal pay as compared to other staff of JNIMS, non-payment of salaries at the same time together with other staff, non-deposition of the deducted GPF amount in the account of Accountant General and misuse of group insurance scheme money and leave salary.

Even as the 42 doctors and 211 staff took great responsibilities in bringing up JNIMS to the present level, they have not been getting their salaries since June.

However, other staff of the same institution have been getting their monthly salaries regularly.

The information that deducted GPF amount did not reach the Accountant General was conveyed to the Medical Superintendent of JN Hospital by the AG.

The employees have been enraged all the more as they have not been allowed to withdraw their own GPF amount.

Though the 42 doctors and the 211 staff wish to come back to Health Directorate, JNIMS authority has been preventing them.

However, service rules permit them to go back to Health Directorate, added the source.

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