large number of Yasoda workers, whose services have been discontinued by the Health Department recently, staged a demonstration in front of the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) here demanding immediate revocation of the Government’s decision and ensuring steps for their job security.
State Yasoda Sangha general secretary Mamata Biswal said the State Government had appointed as many as 156 Yasoda workers in 15 DHHs for child and mother’s abrupt mortality under the NRHM project.
“The Yasoda workers had been eking out a living for the last eight years with a petty salary of Rs 4,000 per month. But, all of a sudden the Health Department discontinued services of 73 Yasoda workers in eight districts and the process to terminate all Yasoda workers in rest of the districts has began,” lamented Biswal.
Demanding reinstatement of all terminated Yasoda workers, the Sangha activists submitted a memorandum to the Governor and the Chief Minister through the Jagatsinghpur CDMO.