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Pay hike sought for health workers
Mohan along with the health workers on Friday met SVRR Government General Hospital superintendent Naik to press for increasing the pay from present Rs 6,000 to Rs 15,000 per month keeping in view the increase in cost of living.
Tirupati: Former Congress MP Chintha Mohan sought SVRR Government Hospital authorities to ensure a monthly salary of Rs 15,000 to the 170 outsourcing health workers employed in the hospital.
Mohan along with the health workers on Friday met SVRR Government General Hospital superintendent Naik to press for increasing the pay from present Rs 6,000 to Rs 15,000 per month keeping in view the increase in cost of living.
SVRR hospital management is readying for a fresh agreement with a Mumbai-based firm as the present contractor for engagement of outsourcing health workers will expire this month.
The senior Congress leader said that as the new contract period is for three years, the payment to the outsourcing employees should be revised now itself or else the health workers have to suffer with the meagre monthly payment of Rs 6000 i.e. just Rs 200 per day, for another three years, making their lives more miserable.
Later, speaking to media, the Congress leader said that it was the poor workers, who were engaged as outsourcing employees to do the meanial works like cleaning toilets, upkeep and garbage disposal including hazardous medical waste risking their lives are the worst hit with the Modi and Chandrababu governments giving priority to corporate sector.
These health workers lives become miserable as they have to maintain their families with a meagre daily wage of Rs 200, forcing them to live in sub-human conditions with no proper dwelling and basic facilities.
Mohan said that the TDP government was showing step-motherly attitude to Rayalaseema region by keeping the Rs 120 crore cancer hospital and the Rs 77 crore maternity hospital here in backburner and also downsizing the NTPC-BHEL factory at Mannavaram.
Recently, the government had upgraded cancer and heart disease treatment facilities at Guntur and Visakhapatnam general hospitals but showed empty hand to SVRR, the biggest government hospital in Rayalaseema, he said reiterating the need to a launch a movement to end the raw deal meted out to the region.
