Ad hoc nurses sit-in in Lahore enters 7th day

LAHORE: The ad hoc nurses on Monday continued their sit-in for the seventh day in front of the Punjab Assembly on The Mall to press the Punjab government and Health Department to regularise their services.

Bowing to the pressure of protesting ad hoc nurses due to their continuous strikes, the Punjab government on Sunday announced to give three-year contract letters to the ad hoc nurses with the commitment to regularise them after three years.

However, a sizeable number of the ad hoc nurses are unwilling to accept the government assurances and still continue their sit-in until their services are regularised and made permanent.