Laboratory technicians in the district go on 48-hour pen-down strike
Following a call given by the Medical Laboratory Technicians Association, Punjab, the laboratory technicians in all parts of the district today started a pen-down strike from 9 am for 48 hours. Due to the pen-down strike the emergency services in the hospitals and health centres, including the Bathinda Civil Hospital were affected adversely.
The laboratory technicians, after marking their attendance on the registers, gathered on the premises of the Civil Hospital here and staged a dharna there.
On the other hand, several patients returned from the laboratories, situated in the new OPD block of the Civil Hospital here, without getting their tests conducted.
Some patients also criticised the state government for not making alternative arrangements in advance, saying it was already in the notice of the government but it had not initiated the required steps for the convenience of the patients.
District general secretary of the association, Resham Singh Jalal, said they were not fond of observing pen-down strike, but it was the government that was not doing justice to them.
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