ANM/ASHA workers are the backbone of the health services and Central Government should make an arrangement to provide them additional allowances. Their services should be extended and the Centre should take steps for their regularisation. Uttarakhand Health Minister Surendra Singh Negi said this in a meeting of central council of 12th Health and Family Welfare held at New Delhi on Saturday.
The meeting was chaired by the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda. On the occasion, Negi apprised the Nadda about the problems being faced by the state government.
Negi said that large numbers of tourists across the country and abroad reach Uttarakhand during Kumbh Mela, Char Dham Yatra, Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, Hemkund Sahib yatra, Nanda Raj Jat Yatra and other occasions round the year. In order to provide better medical services to the pilgrims, the central government should make an arrangement of specialist doctors who are equipped with modern and relevant medical services equipments in the state.
All the students of government and private colleges located in mountainous areas should be made mandatory to give his five years’ service in rural and mountainous parts of the state after they complete MBBS degree.