Govt appoints SUMAN volunteers, ASHA employees to launch stir in the present day
Manav Mander
Ludhiana, February 19
Accredited Social Well being Activist (ASHA) employees are up in arms in opposition to the state authorities over the appointment of Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan (SUMAN) volunteers. The ASHA employees have determined to launch an agitation throughout the state in opposition to the transfer and can be staging protest demonstrations at their respective Major Well being Centres, Neighborhood Well being Centres and submitting memorandums to the Senior Medical Officers from February 20-25.
Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan
The SUMAN volunteers can be working beneath initiative of the federal government which focuses on assured supply of maternal and new child healthcare providers, encompassing wider entry to free and high quality providers, stop maternal and new child deaths and supply optimistic birthing expertise.
The ASHA employees are of the view that a number of the works assigned to SUMAN volunteers are already being carried out by them.
An ASHA employee is a group well being employee employed by the Ministry of Well being and Household Welfare as part of India’s Nationwide Rural Well being Mission and their primary focus is to make sure that girls bear ante-natal check-ups, keep diet throughout being pregnant, institutional supply, maintain newborns and moms and guarantee vaccination of the kid. Alternatively, the SUMAN volunteers can be working beneath initiative of the federal government which focuses on assured supply of maternal and new child healthcare providers, encompassing wider entry to free and high quality providers, stop maternal and new child deaths and supply optimistic birthing expertise.
Panchayati Raj Establishment representatives, opinion leaders, faculty academics, civil society representatives, Self-Assist Group members and so forth can decide to turn into SUMAN Volunteers.
The president of the ASHA Employees Union, Kirandeep Kaur, mentioned that they’re launching this agitation as a result of central authorities has requested the state authorities to register SUMAN volunteers.
“Appointment of SUMAN volunteers is a direct assault on us. We’re working with the division since 2008 and have labored onerous since then. Even throughout Covid-19 we labored with out caring about our lives,” mentioned Kiran.
“We’ve got been asking the federal government to provide us a hard and fast wage and regularise our jobs. As an alternative of accepting our calls for, the federal government has appointed a 3rd occasion for finishing up the work we have now been doing. We’ll intensify our battle if our calls for usually are not met by February 25,” she added.