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| Ill-treatment to COVID warriors exposes rot infested system | | Health workers without salaries for months, deafening silence within power corridors shows lack of concern | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 7: Four months and counting, the women health workers in Jammu and Kashmir are yet to get their wages from the health department. This has exposed the rotten system which is calling shots in the erstwhile state at present.
According to reports, Female Multipurpose Health Workers have not been paid salaries for the last four months and due to this, they are facing immense hardships. In spite of taking up the issue with the government several times for their demands, their salaries have not been released yet.
Reports inform that due to non-payment of salary, many women are facing difficulty in subsistence on household expenses and many workers are not able to buy their essential medicines on time. Even after doing the work on time and in full, their salary has become a thing of the past.
A woman health worker said that while all the employees get their salary every month but they have been waiting for four months. She said that many workers have taken loans, some have to pay the school and college fees of the children. In such a situation, if there is no salary, then how will all these obligations be fulfilled? “This is inhuman and torturous to the core. How could the government deny salaries to the employees who were at the forefront in addressing the COVID 19 crises in Jammu and Kashmir? While all the employee fraternity was inside their homes, the women health workers were at the forefront, taking a lead and leaving a mark. Now the government must understand the severity of the situation and ensure no injustice is meted out at any cost,” says the employee worker.
“We have expenses in our families. How could we pay fee of our children. How could we bear the medical expenses and how could we ensure that our basic needs are met at the very onset. This is height of injustice and has no place in a saner society wherein tall claims of good governance are made with each passing day,” says a health worker, adding that if such a trend continues, they will be pushed to starvation and will face extreme difficulties in continuing with their duties. “We work under trying and challenging circumstances. If this treatment wouldn’t end, we will be forced and compelled to hit the roads again.”
Meanwhile, as usual, there is a deafening silence from the power corridors with no word of surety being given by the government over resolution of the issue. |
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