- Operation of 35 centers
- 950 ASHA workers have been appointed
Nagpur. The careless functioning of the Municipal Administration in the city, which is at par with Mumbai in Corona infection, is such that the safety of the employees providing health services is at stake. Surprisingly, except the doctors of Somalwada and Futala Health Center (PHC), the entire staff has come under the grip of corona infection. Therefore, the demand to take it seriously has been demanded by Jammu Anand, President of Nagpur Municipal Corporation Health Employees Organization. He said that expressing the possibility of spreading more infection in the third wave of corona, the Municipal Administration had been requested to pay special attention to the safety of health workers, but this was not paid attention to. As a result, all the employees from the head of the health department are now coming under the grip of the epidemic.
Disaster on 1,300 employees
He said that the condition of the health centers of the Municipal Corporation can be gauged from the fact that only a few employees are now working in most of the centers. Sanitizer has not even been arranged at any center. Under the National Health Mission, 35 primary health centers are being operated in the National Urban Health Mission. Cancer eradication campaign is also run at these centers. In addition to 250 employees in PHC, about 50 and 950 ASHA workers have been appointed in cancer eradication. In this way, about 1,300 employees working in the third wave of Corona are being clouded by disaster. He said that only infected citizens are going to these health centers to get medicines, due to which the staff of the health centers are getting disrupted.
crisis on families
Jammu Anand said that while the employees of the Center are getting disrupted, there is a danger of getting infected on the families due to them. In the third wave, cases of about 5,000 infected people are coming to the fore. If this pace continues, it will not be possible for the Municipal Corporation to handle the services in the absence of health workers. These employees should be compulsorily given N-95 masks and face shields. Apart from this, hospitals should be sanitized regularly. After exposing all the shortcomings, a memorandum was submitted on behalf of the organization to the Deputy Director of Health Jaiswal a week ago. Soon he also warned of agitation if the health workers were not getting facilities.