PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/Dehradun

Patients faced difficulties accessing services, including billing, at Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) Hospital on Monday. The issue arose when workers employed under Uttarakhand Purva Sainik Kalyan Nigam Limited (UPNL) protested and boycotted work seeking action on their demands.

About 200 GDMC staff members, including nursing staff, sanitation workers and others working under UPNL, participated in the boycott, significantly affecting services, particularly billing at the hospital. Patients said that a task typically took 15 to 20 minutes at the billing and registration counter which took much more time on Monday due to the unavailability of experienced staff and the temporary deployment of inexperienced workers. However, sanitation and other ess

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