PRAYAGRAJ, Nov. 6 -- Nearly 700 outsourced sanitation workers at Swaroop Rani Nehru (SRN) Hospital continued to boycott work on the second day of their strike on Thursday. The workers alleged non-payment of salaries for the past two months and failure to deposit their Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) contributions for the last nine months. The strike severely affected cleanliness and sanitation services across the hospital premises. With the sanitation staff staying away from work, garbage and biomedical waste piled up in several parts of the hospital, including wards, operation theatres, OPD areas, the trauma centre and the PMSSY building. The agitating workers staged a protest on the hospital premises before marching to the office of the district magistrate to press for their demands. Although hospital authorities held talks with the protesters, the discussions remained inconclusive. Hospital authorities said regular employees were deployed to manage essential sanitation work and minimize disruption, but efforts proved insufficient to restore normalcy. htc...