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Friday, September 8, 2017

Depressed TMH nurse suffering from TB hangs self to death

Source : https://www.avenuemail.in/jamshedpur/depressed-tmh-nurse-suffering-tb-hangs-self-death/92295/

Jamshedpur, April 18: In a shocking incident, a young nurse of Tata Main Hospital (TMH) hanged herself from the ceiling fan at her hostel in the hospital premises under Bistupur police station area on Monday morning. The nurse has been identified as Rashmi Kumari (24). She was suffering from tuberculosis.
The police took the body in their possession and sent it to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem after taking statement from her brother-in-law Vivek Prakash. Police said this to be a case of suicide and confirmed that the nurse was suffering from tuberculosis.
“We are investigating the incident of suicide. Though the deceased has left no suicide note, but a close relative told us that as she was suffering from TB. She might have committed suicide due to depression. We are looking into it,” said assistant sub-inspector Ravindra Sharma of Bistupur police station on the basis of the statement given by Vivek.
General Manager, Tata Main Hospital, G Ramdas, however, maintained that the nurse must not have committed suicide due to the disease; rather she must have some personal reasons which forced her to take this extreme step.
“Though the nurse who committed suicide was suffering from TB, but it must not be the reason behind such step. She must have some personal reason behind the move. The police are investigating into it,” said Ramdas.
She was staying alone in a room at the nurses’ hostel. Another nurse was to join her for staying along. But she committed suicide. Rashmi, a resident of Nalanda district of Bihar, used her `dupatta’ for hanging. The ASI, Sharma said Rashmi used to stay alone in a room.
He said after the incident the hospital managing informed the police and subsequently to the deceased’s brother-in-law Vivek Prakash, who is a resident of Govindpur and her local guardian.
Prakash who had turned at the MGM Medical College mortuary said that she was quite normal and had even talked to him yesterday.” We are in state of shock and don’t know what led to take such drastic step. There must be some other reason which we do not know.
She spoke to me yesterday over cell phone and she was quite normal,” he said.
In a statement issued on Monday, Tata Steel said, “It is with extreme grief and sorrow that we wish to inform that this morning at around 7.30 am, the body of Ms. Rashmi Kumari, (age 24), a student of 1st year, BSc, at the Basic Nursing Course at TMH, was found hanging in her room at the Nursing Hostel at TMH.
According to the statement, the police were informed of this incident immediately and they took her body into custody on arrival at site and sent it for autopsy. The cause of death will be known after the post mortem. The police are investigating into the matter.Jamshedpur, April 18: In a shocking incident, a young nurse of Tata Main Hospital (TMH) hanged herself from the ceiling fan at her hostel in the hospital premises under Bistupur police station area on Monday morning. The nurse has been identified as Rashmi Kumari (24). She was suffering from tuberculosis.
The police took the body in their possession and sent it to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem after taking statement from her brother-in-law Vivek Prakash. Police said this to be a case of suicide and confirmed that the nurse was suffering from tuberculosis.
“We are investigating the incident of suicide. Though the deceased has left no suicide note, but a close relative told us that as she was suffering from TB. She might have committed suicide due to depression. We are looking into it,” said assistant sub-inspector Ravindra Sharma of Bistupur police station on the basis of the statement given by Vivek.
General Manager, Tata Main Hospital, G Ramdas, however, maintained that the nurse must not have committed suicide due to the disease; rather she must have some personal reasons which forced her to take this extreme step.
“Though the nurse who committed suicide was suffering from TB, but it must not be the reason behind such step. She must have some personal reason behind the move. The police are investigating into it,” said Ramdas.
She was staying alone in a room at the nurses’ hostel. Another nurse was to join her for staying along. But she committed suicide. Rashmi, a resident of Nalanda district of Bihar, used her `dupatta’ for hanging. The ASI, Sharma said Rashmi used to stay alone in a room.
He said after the incident the hospital managing informed the police and subsequently to the deceased’s brother-in-law Vivek Prakash, who is a resident of Govindpur and her local guardian.
Prakash who had turned at the MGM Medical College mortuary said that she was quite normal and had even talked to him yesterday.” We are in state of shock and don’t know what led to take such drastic step. There must be some other reason which we do not know.
She spoke to me yesterday over cell phone and she was quite normal,” he said.
In a statement issued on Monday, Tata Steel said, “It is with extreme grief and sorrow that we wish to inform that this morning at around 7.30 am, the body of Ms. Rashmi Kumari, (age 24), a student of 1st year, BSc, at the Basic Nursing Course at TMH, was found hanging in her room at the Nursing Hostel at TMH.
According to the statement, the police were informed of this incident immediately and they took her body into custody on arrival at site and sent it for autopsy. The cause of death will be known after the post mortem. The police are investigating into the matter.

2nd year nursing student commits suicide in Patna

Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/patna/2nd-year-nursing-student-commits-suicide-in-patna/story-JS5aVQoIWJUQhPv9VqwlYL.html

Source : https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170909/jsp/bihar/story_171760.jsp

The reason for the extreme step by the nursing student could not be immediately known as no suicide note was found in her hostel room on the campus of Nalanda Medical College and Hospital in Patna .A nursing student of Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) in Patna allegedly committed suicide in her hostel room on Thursday night.

Police said the body of Sirat Faruqi, a second-year student, was found hanging by a plastic rope tied to the window grille in her nursing school hostel room on NMCH campus in Alamganj police station area on Friday morning.
The reason for her taking the extreme step could not be immediately known as no suicide note was found in the room, Alamganj police station SHO Om Prakash said, adding that her parents had been informed and the body sent for post-mortem examination.
The station house officer (SHO) quoted hostel inmates as saying that Sirat, daughter of Farooq Ayub, was upset after she returned from her village in Begusarai district , 125 km east of Patna, recently.
Om Prakash said the incident came to light when NMCH security guards broke open the doors of the room after the hostel inmates informed the college authorities something was wrong.
He said the hostel girls grew suspicious when Sirat, an early riser, did not answer the knocks at the door even after 7.30 am.



Monday, September 4, 2017

Kerala nurses strike: Here is all you need to know

Source: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/what-is-kerala-nurse-strike-wage-war-against-private-hospitals-to-aggravate-4731928/

On an indefinite strike in Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Ernakulam, Malappuram and Kozhikode, the United Nurses' Association in Kerala has said that a march to the Secretariat as well as a statewide token strike would be held on July 11 demanding better pay.


The fight for better wages among nurses in Kerala is set to aggravate with nurses strengthening protest against the government demanding standard wages. The Indian Nurses’ Association (INA) and the United Nurses’ Association (UNA) are determined to escalate their protest without waiting for the government’s industrial relations committee (IRC) meeting to take a decision on the issue scheduled to be held on July 20.
On an indefinite strike in Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Ernakulam, Malappuram and Kozhikode, the UNA has said that a march to the Secretariat as well as a statewide token strike would be held on July 11, according to a report in The Hindu.
“We have no option now. Even if we starve to death we have decided that we will fight this to the end because we cannot survive on this meagre salary in today’s world. In the next few days, 80,000 of us are going to march to the government secretariat in protest and nurses across private hospitals will start boycotting work soon,” UNA chief Jasminsha was quoted as saying by Firstpost.
The INA, however, has decided to go on a hunger strike till their demands are met. By Saturday, the strike was on its fourth day. INA nurses’ stir has hit work in Kannur district since the past three-four days. The stir would be aggravated and taken to Thiruvananthapuram and Kasaragod from July 8, leaders of the INA said.
“The last IRC on June 27 left it to the government to finalise and notify the minimum wages of nurses. The government has now gone back on its word and is talking about convening the IRC again. We do not need any more discussions, we just want the government to notify the minimum wages based on the recommendation of the committee set up by the Supreme Court, under Jagdish Prasad, Director General of Health Services,” UNA vice president for Kerala, Sibi Mukesh was quoted as saying by The Hindu.
What is the strike all about?
In 2016, a recommendation by a special committee assigned by the Supreme Court had said that all privately owned hospitals with 50 bed plus capacity had to make sure that nurses get salaries at par with those in the government sector. This came after nurses had agitated in 2013. Basic wage for them was Rs 9,500, according to a pay scale revision in 2013. Nurses claim that certain hospitals fail to ensure even the minimum salary.
With hordes of nurses from the state flying abroad for better pay, the profession experienced a boom between 2000-2010. This led to colleges springing up in myriad parts of the state as well as a surge in numbers of applicants, a lot of whom opted for diplomas from colleges outside Kerala, without checking the credentials of the institute.
Nurse associations feel this is when salary discrepancy started. In order to get a two-year experience certificate, they began compromising with less pay. “When I started working in 1987, an MBBS doctor got Rs 1,500-2,000 and nurses got about Rs 1,000.That was the difference. Today, a doctor gets Rs 30,000 and a nurse gets Rs 6,000-8,000 in the first year,” Roy George, Kerala chief of the Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI) was quoted as saying by The Times of India.
The nurses called for the indefinite strike after talks between the nurses’ union, labour commissioner K Biju and labour minister TP Ramakrishnan failed. While the union demanded at least Rs 18,000, the hospitals have agreed to a minimum monthly wage of Rs 12,000. The strike has come at a time when epidemics and related diseases have claimed over 100 lives.

Brexit effect: UK looks to India again to meet shortage of nurses

Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/brexit-effect-uk-looks-to-india-again-to-meet-shortage-of-nurses/story-HxICW7ozfItLw2hkTjHfxM.html

Doctors trained in India are the second largest group in the NHS after those trained in the UK. New visa curbs have cut numbers, but the number of Indian health professionals remains very high.


Britain’s health officials are in talks with India’s Apollo Hospitals to recruit nurses to meet the growing shortage in the National Health Service (NHS), hit by what has been described as an “exodus” of European nursing staff after the June 2016 vote to leave the European Union.
Indian doctors and nurses have long moved to Britain to meet the shortage. In fact, doctors trained in India are the second largest group in the NHS after those trained in the United Kingdom. New visa curbs have cut numbers, but the number of Indian health professionals remains very high.
Ian Cumming, chief executive of Health Education England (HEE) – the national education and training body – told Health Service Journal this week that talks were on with Apollo Hospitals to send nurses who will be provided postgraduate training for two years.
Brexit was one of the reasons Britain was losing nursing staff, he said. Besides training, the Indian nurses will also help meet shortage during their stay here.
HEE and Apollo Hospitals signed a memorandum of understanding in 2015 on sharing staff and training opportunities, which has been used to source general practitioners, the journal reported. England currently has an estimated 40,000 nursing vacancies.
Cumming said: “They are looking for registered nurses working for their organisations who are seeking to get further training in paediatrics, ITU, theatres, A&E, etcetera and they are having a conversation with us on whether the NHS would be able to offer on the job training.
“This would be for a fixed period on an earn-learn-return basis – maybe two years. They work as nurses to get that postgraduate experience and training in the specialities we have in this country.”
Cummings did not mention figures for the number of Indian nurses, but said: “I don’t envisage it being single figures.”
According to him, the biggest problem was doctors and nurses no longer wanting to work full-time. Graduates trained in Britain “have come off the pipeline exactly as we anticipated,” he said.
However, he added: “More people at the higher end of expectations have left and we have seen an increase in part-time working . . . There is no point in just using the training pathway as the solution if we are then losing people.”

NHS in talks to recruit Indian nurses to deal with staff crisis


Sorce: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nhs-in-talks-to-recruit-indian-nurses-to-deal-with-staff-crisis-nvdwzgmnc
The NHS is in talks to bring in more nurses from India as hospitals struggle with an exodus of staff from the EU.
Chiefs are negotiating with an Indian hospital chain to find nurses who would work in Britain for two years in exchange for specialist NHS training.
Ian Cumming, chief executive of Health Education England, said the crisis had been caused by doctors and nurses going part-time or leaving the NHS, not because Britain was not training enough staff.
There are 40,000 nursing vacancies in England and the shortfall is one of the most serious issues facing the NHS. Figures published t

Nursing student ends life in Tamil Nadu

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/nursing-student-ends-life-in-tn/articleshow/59476355.cms

VELLORE: A 17-year-old nursing student allegedly committed suicide in her hostel room at Kagithapettarai near in Vellore on Thursday.

The deceased has been identified as Nalini, daughter of Devanathan and resident of Ambedkar Nagar in Bagayam. She was a first year nursing diploma student.

She was last seen by her roommates when they were getting ready to go to class. Nalini told her friends that she would be late for class.


Around 10.30pm, hostel warden Nathiya found the girl hanging from the ceiling of the room. She immediately alerted the college management and the Vellore north police.
The police rushed to the spot and conducted an inquiry. The police recovered the body and shifted it to the Government Vellore Medical College Hospital for postmortem.


The police found a suicide note from her room. In the suicide not, she had stated that "God is calling me, and I am going to Him."

Nursing student commits suicide in Mumbai

Source: http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/nursing-student-commits-suicide-in-mumbai-4826038/

On Saturday morning, while her roommates - who were also doing a nursing course - left to attend classes, she told them she was unwell and would join them later, an officer said.


A 26-year-old woman doing a nursing course committed suicide by hanging herself from the shower rod inside the bathroom of the nursing college of Jaslok Hospital. According to the police, Narayani Awasthi, who originally hailed from UP, was not performing well in her course and had been upset about it.
An officer said that Awasthi completed her graduation in UP and has been doing a nursing course at Jaslok Hospital since 2014. She was into her third year and was staying at a hostel in Jaslok house. She shared the room with five others. On Saturday morning, while her roommates – who were also doing a nursing course – left to attend classes, she told them she was unwell and would join them later, an officer said.
Later, a sweeper came to the room and found the bathroom locked from inside. When there was no response, he alerted hostel authorities after which the bathroom door was broken where they found Awasthi hanging from the shower rod. They rushed her to the hospital where she was declared dead.
The local Gamdevi police was informed about the incident. An officer said, “No foul play is suspected prima facie and we have registered an accidental death report. The body has been sent for post-mortem. We will be recording the statement of her colleagues to find out if they knew the reason that drove her to take the extreme step.” The officer added, “So far, we have learnt that she was not performing well in the course and had been upset about it.”
Zonal deputy police commissioner Dyaneshwar Chavan said, “There is still no clarity on the reason why she committed suicide. An accidental death report has been recorded in the matter.”
A statement from Jaslok hospital read, “Hospital authorities are baffled. The hospital cannot comment on what could have driven her to take the extreme step.” Principal Mangalam said the hospital is disturbed about the news. “It could be that she was under pressure as she couldn’t cope with the expectations of the course.”