Date:04/03/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/03/04/stories/2007030417410300.htm

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Gandhi Hospital job aspirants cautioned

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: All these days, Gandhi Hospital was groaning under a severe shortage of nursing staff and Class IV employees. And now, when the Government finally agreed to solve the problem, a new dilemma has cropped up.

The Government had permitted the hospital management to outsource recruitment of 200 nurses and 200 Class IV employees to private agencies, who were supposed to filter applications and forward the eligible to the hospital for final interviews.

However, after eight agencies -- four each for the nurses and Class IV employees -- were selected and the process began, complaints of a few people trying to fleece job aspirants have been brought to the notice of the hospital management.

According to hospital sources, a few people are said to have promised aspirants a permanent Government job and extracted huge sums of money from them in the guise of being official recruiters for Gandhi Hospital. "We are now cautioning all job aspirants, applying for nursing staff and Class IV posts, that these jobs are on a temporary basis only and that they do not have to pay anybody any money for that. Please do not be lured into the promise of a permanent Government job," Gandhi Hospital superintendent B. Balaraju said.