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Contract medical staff left in the lurch
Contract medical staff left in the lurch. About 2,000 pharmacists, lab technicians and health assistants did not get salaries from April due to non continuation of appointment. The appointment was done by the District Selection Committee based on written test and merit.
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Hyderabad: About 2,000 pharmacists, lab technicians and health assistants did not get salaries from April due to non continuation of appointment. The appointment was done by the District Selection Committee based on written test and merit.
From the past 14 years the government had been extending their services every year. But after March 2015 when the service contract expired, the government did not do anything to renew their services nor have they been paid the wages.
“I did not get salary for over three months. I ended up taking loans from private persons to pay fee for my children for admissions and other purposes,” said Pankaja, a woman pharmacist working at Osmania General Hospital.
Telangana United Medical and Health employees Union Vice President V Mohan Reddy said that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao assured that the contract employees’ services would be regularised on two occasions: in Assembly and in his Independence Day speech. The employees were recruited as per the merit and rule of reservation through District Selection Committee, he confirmed.
Doctors, staff nurses and ANMs were regularised by the previous government in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh and only three cadres- Pharmacists, Lab Technicians and Health assistants were left out, he said.
