20 hospital employees attempt suicide in Haldwani

Demanding regularisation of their jobs, twenty hospital employees including five women on Friday allegedly attempted suicide outside a hospital at Haldwani in Uttarakhand.

Wardboys and midwives of the Sushila Tiwari Forest Trust Hospital allegedly consumed pesticide after the hospital authorities turned down their demand, official sources said. However, police took them inside the hospital where they were given treatment.

The condition of three of them was stated to be critical and they were referred to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, they said.

Meanwhile, Nainital district administration has ordered an inquiry into the matter.

They were agitating over the last two months demanding regularisation of their jobs.