Tamil Nadu: Appoint us as multipurpose workers, urge RCH sanitary workers
The workers demand that the remaining RCH sanitary workers who have not been appointed as multipurpose hospital workers should be appointed and given a salary hike.
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CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Primary Health Centres’ Reproductive and Child Health Contract Sanitary Workers’ Welfare Association has urged the State Health Department to appoint them as Multipurpose Workers. This long pending demand was reiterated since not all of them have been appointed.
They demand that the remaining RCH sanitary workers who have not been appointed as multipurpose hospital workers should be appointed and given a salary hike. As many as 210 RCH sanitary workers who have completed 60 years of age have been demanding to be given retirement benefits and relieved from duty.
In a meeting on Sunday, Dr GR Ravindranath, secretary of Doctors’ Association for Social Equality, urged the government to take immediate action to address the issue. He has also requested the government to provide immediate appointment orders to RCH sanitary workers as multipurpose hospital workers, and also release the names of 100 RCH workers who have not been appointed yet.
“We’ve been asking for the reasons for not selecting 946 RCH sanitary workers. The remaining 736 RCH sanitary workers should be appointed as multipurpose hospital workers, considering their long service and given equal pay for equal work,” said NS Selvaraj, president of the association.
He added that workers should be exempted from continuing to work for a meagre monthly wage of Rs 1,500. “They should be paid the pending salary arrears from 2017 and given retirement benefits. Family compensation should be given to the families of more than 10 sanitary workers who died during work or while in service. In some places, sanitary workers and multipurpose hospital workers have not been paid wages for three months. This should be paid immediately,” he added.
