The Lok Nayak Hospital Nursing Union has formally written to Delhi Lieutenant Governor V. K. Saxena, the Chief Minister's Office, and the hospital administration, highlighting the urgent need for a separate changing room for female nurses at the government-run hospital.

Despite a directive from the National Commission for Women (NCW) urging swift action to create a more women-friendly environment, the union claims that no steps have been taken by the hospital, The Indian Express reported.

In the letter addressed to the L-G, the Chief Minister's Office, and the hospital's additional medical superintendent, the union pointed out the deplorable condition of many changing rooms, particularly in the medicine and gynaecology blocks.

Amit Pandey, the general secretary of the union, noted that a team from the NCW visited the hospital in September and had given the administration a 15-day deadline to improve the facilities for female nurses.

“The doors are broken down. They do not have a proper sitting arrangement. One incident is from gynaec 1B ward, where there is no room for female nursing officers. Another room was allotted to the doctors as their duty room,” Pandey told the newspaper.

The union has urged the hospital administration to resolve these issues before the NCW's next scheduled visit.