Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, June 9: The leaders of Jammu Kashmir Medical Employee Federation (JKMEF) and Jammu Kashmir Government Pharmacist Association (JKGPA), Jammu today visited quarantine centres and some hospitals in district Samba where they interacted with frontline Health workers on roster duty and listened to their problems.
Led by Sushil Sudan (president JKMEF) and Jarnail Singh Choudhary (working president, JKGP Association, Jammu) and Kamal Jit Sawhney (general secretary, JKGPA, Jammu), the leaders first visited Thandi Khuie quarantine center and then Emergency Hospital Vijaypur and at last District Hospital Samba.
During the tour, the leaders met with COVID -19 frontline Healthcare workers and doctors who projected some demands such as special incentive in favour of all COVID-19 frontline workers as per the analogy of Haryana Government i.e double pay to all front line workers. They also expressed serious over health workers getting infected with Coronavirus while rendering their selfless services in health institutions and demanded that they be treated in Narayana Hospital Kakrayal, Reasi.
Sushil Sudan listened to their demands patiently and said that Federation would extend all possible support so that Health care workers do not face any difficulty while discharging its duties. He urged the higher authorities of the Health Department to arrange suitable accommodation like Narayana Hospital in Karkyal or some Government guest houses having first class facilities for isolation of symptomatic COVID positive healthcare workers (from class IV to doctors) to boost the morale of frontline workers.
Later, Sushil Sudan, Jarnail Singh Choudhary, Kamal Jit Sawhney and Mohd Aslam (president, Laboratory Technician District Samba) met with Chief Medical Officer Samba and put forward some demands like making available sufficient quantity of personal protection kits and other accessories to all COVID -19 frontline workers for their safety.
CMO Samba alistened to their demands patiently and assured them to fulfill their demands on priority basis.
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