Chandigarh, July 31 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) has directed the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) to provide data to ascertain as to how many persons are there in the feeder cadre eligible to be considered for promotion for various nursing posts of nursing superintendent, deputy nursing superintendent, assistant nursing superintendent and senior nursing officer (earlier known as Sister, Grade - I).

The directions were issued by the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry during resumed hearing of a suo motu proceedings initiated by HC on June 19 while acting on a news report which claimed that 60% of the nursing posts are vacant. The report had cited shortage of staff as ...