BARA, JULY 21
Health workers in Bara's Jitpursimara Sub-metropolis are up in arms demanding allowance.
Having declared an agitation yesterday, the agitators, working by sporting black bands around their wrists, have threatened to halt all services unless their demand is met.
All 29 health workers, including health coordinator Rabi Bhaskar, assistant coordinator Jitan Thakur, Simara Primary Health Centre's Ashok Jaisawal, Urban Health Promotion Centre's chief Dr Dipak Giri of the sub-metropolis have submitted a memorandum to the sub-metropolis' acting administrative officer Shivaji Prasad Sah, informing about their demand.
The memorandum has warned that health workers will be compelled to halt all but emergency services from Sunday unless their demand is met by Friday.
"We have been getting local allowance from the local level annually until lately, but as we have been told we won't get such allowance this year, we had to agitate," said Dr Giri, adding, "How fair is it that health staff, who worked by putting their lives at risk during this pandemic, won't get any allowance that they were receiving up until last year while other staff in the local level are getting it?"
A version of this article appears in the print on July 22 2021, of The Himalayan Times.
