Karnataka

Condition of Nurses in India

The following article was written by Manjunath Naganur, a staff nurse working at a private hospital in Belgaum, Karnataka. The issue relates to the travails faced by the nurses everywhere in India with lack of job opportunities in government run hospitals to extreme exploitation in the hands of private/ corporate hospitals. The proliferation of private nursing educational institutions has led to churning out a large number of nursing graduates who have little choice but to join private/ corporate hospitals often at extremely low wages. read more