Tahir Mushtaq
JAMMU, June 26: Safari Karamcharis engaged as contractual worker in Super Speciality Hospital Jammu went on strike after the Medical Superintendent (MS) misbehaved with a lady safai karamchari this morning.
According to sources there was some issue in between MS and safai karamchari after which all workers went on strike and started protesting against hospital administration in front of hospital. Later the issue was resolved and they call off the strike and went back to their work.
Supervisor Manish Kumar said there are 15 safai karamcharis who were engaged in November 2012 on a monthly salary of 3300, but the administration haven’t paid them from the last seven months.
“Our contractor Ram Kumar Dubey is paying the salaries of all the karamcharis on his own but the government is not taking and heed to them neither they pay the contractor” he said.
He demanded that their salary should be increased to Rs 4500 per month as other safai karamcharis and there will be a fixed time to pay the salary.
For the smooth functioning of the hospital the administration need Rs 60 crore annually including the salaries and other expenses of the hospital, but in February, Rs 2 crore was sanctioned, which lapsed due to administrative apathy,” said a insider.
Lack of medical and para medical staff in the hospital is another issue from which the patient care is suffering. Several times the government has advertised posts for the GMC Jammu and associated hospitals through Public Service Commission (PSC) and Services Recruitment Board (SRB), but didn’t get any response.
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