Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has decided to go in for a change in the conventional uniforms of nurses, where females will now be required to wear beige salwar suits and sarees on duty while males would put on similar coloured shirts and pants along with white aprons.
According to a Government Resolution (GR), the decision has been taken post consultations and consent of the Maharashtra Government Nurses Federation (MGNF), who have been complaining about the difficulties faced while working in white frocks in busy tertiary care hospitals.
The government has mandated around 20,000 nurses to wear beige coloured uniforms while on duty. It has also mandated matrons to wear uniforms noticing that they often took the liberty of not adhering to the uniform rule in hospitals. Kamal Vaykole, secretary, MGNF said, “We were fighting for this uniform since a long time.”
