MUNGER: The indefinite strike by 5,000 contract employees serving under State Health Society, Munger, entered the second day on Tuesday paralysing healthcare in the district.
Even though medical officers were attending patients at all the nine primary health centres (PHCs), four additional primary health centres (APHCs) besides sadar hospital, Munger, and one sub-divisional hospital, Tarapur, basic healthcare services remained paralysed and patients had to return without check up and medicines as counters of medicine distribution, pathological test labs were all locked up. With OT assistants on strike, no surgery could be performed.
"I had come to the sadar hospital from Dharhara for a check up of my wife as she is in the family way. Our block PHC is not functioning due to strike by Mamta workers. But in Munger also I could not get any medicine and no tests could be done as prescribed by the doctor due to the strike," said a resident of Kareli village under Dharhara block of this district, Ramkishun Kora.
Non-gazetted Employees Association (Gope faction) president Baleshwar Prasad Yadav visited the dharna site and extended his support to the striking employees. Yadav said, "The government was spending crores on non-utility schemes, but the employees who serve the government for more than eight hours a day, were denied equal pay for equal work."
Bihar Rajya Swasth Sambida Karmi Mahasangh secretary Vikas Kumar said that the strike will continue till the government meets their demand.
Even though medical officers were attending patients at all the nine primary health centres (PHCs), four additional primary health centres (APHCs) besides sadar hospital, Munger, and one sub-divisional hospital, Tarapur, basic healthcare services remained paralysed and patients had to return without check up and medicines as counters of medicine distribution, pathological test labs were all locked up. With OT assistants on strike, no surgery could be performed.
"I had come to the sadar hospital from Dharhara for a check up of my wife as she is in the family way. Our block PHC is not functioning due to strike by Mamta workers. But in Munger also I could not get any medicine and no tests could be done as prescribed by the doctor due to the strike," said a resident of Kareli village under Dharhara block of this district, Ramkishun Kora.
Non-gazetted Employees Association (Gope faction) president Baleshwar Prasad Yadav visited the dharna site and extended his support to the striking employees. Yadav said, "The government was spending crores on non-utility schemes, but the employees who serve the government for more than eight hours a day, were denied equal pay for equal work."
Bihar Rajya Swasth Sambida Karmi Mahasangh secretary Vikas Kumar said that the strike will continue till the government meets their demand.
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