Congress leaders including Rahul Gandhi and Shashi Tharoor has come up heavily on a circular issued by Delhi hospital to nurses to use only Hindi or English for communication. The action was taken after receiving a number of complaints from patients, says the hospital.
Delhi government-run Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research is now facing flak for the controversial order issued by it over nurses conversing in Malayalam in the hospital. The communication, issued by the Nursing Superintendent, said that complaints had been received about the Malayalam language being used for communication at workplaces in GIPMER.
Stating that patients and colleagues were inconvenienced as they did not know the language, the Superintendent directed all nursing personnel to use only Hindi and English for communication or face serious action.
Rahul Gandhi has strongly ‘condemned’ the circular. Reacting to the order, Congress Rajya Sabha MP KC Venugopal said, “Naturally, nurses belong to the same region would speak the language among themselves as it is their mother tongue. It is illogical to assume that they would speak in their mother tongue to a person who cannot speak that language. This circular is undoubtedly, highly discriminatory and denying the basic fundamental right guaranteed by our Constitution.”
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