NHM staff hold protest, demand regular jobs

Tarn Taran, January 3

Doctors, para-medical and ministerial staff and other employees working under the National Health Mission (NHM) scheme organised a ‘jago’ in the town on Monday. The protesters marched up to the residence of the local MLA, Dr Dharambeer Agnihotri, where they raised slogans against the state government. They had been demanding the regularisation of their services.

Jasbir Singh Ghariala, president of the district unit of the NHM Employees’ Association, Punjab, said they had been working in the Health Department for the last 15 years, but their services had not been regularised till date as the state government had done nothing but to dilly-dally their current demands. — OC