Mini clinics: Govt assures status quo on nurses’ hiring

Mini clinics: Govt assures status quo on nurses’ hiring

Madurai: The state government on Tuesday informed the Madras high court that status quo would be maintained in the process of recruiting staff nurses though outsourcing for mini clinics across the state.

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Advocate general Vijay Narayan sought time to file a counter in this case and informed that the government would maintain status quo till then.
Taking cognizance of the submissions, a division bench of justices M M Sundresh and S Ananthi adjourned the case to January 11 for further hearing.
The court was hearing a public interest litigation filed by G V Vairam Santhosh, an advocate from Madurai district challenging the proceedings issued by the director of public health and preventive medicine to recruit 1,415 staff nurses and 585 multipurpose workers at the mini clinics through outsourcing by a private agency.
The petitioner stated that the selection process which is done on a largescale has to be done properly by following reservation, communal rotation, either through medical recruitment board or through employment exchanges where qualified candidates can participate.

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