BMC hikes health workers’ pay
In what can be termed as a Ganeshotsav gift to health post workers, the BMC has decided to raise their monthly stipend from `2,500 to `4,000.
There had been a long pending demand and even threats of strike from the health post workers (Aarogya Sevika) to increase their honorarium. The hike will put a financial burden of `6.12 crore on the BMC exchequer and will be implemented with retrospective effect from June 12.
“Considering the inflation and the amount of work done, we have decided to increase the stipend of health post workers. It is because of their consistent efforts, the malaria epidemic, which had acquired dangerous proportions couple of years ago, has come under control,” said Rahul Shewale, BMC’s standing committee chairman.
However, like the anganwadi workers of the state government, the working hours of health post workers have also been increased from four to five hours.
Prakash Devdas, president of the Brihanmumbai Mahanagarpalika Kamgar Karmachari Mahasangh said that the health post workers have always been neglected by the civic administration. The last honorarium raise was done in April 2010, when their stipend was increased from `1,500 to `2,500.
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9-hour surgery saves victim’s arm
Age correspondent
Mumbai, Sept. 23
Doctors have fixed the severed arm of a 23-year-old woman who sustained injuries after falling from a running train on Saturday morning.
The victim, Priyal Shah, a housewife, was trying to disembark from a running train at Nallasopara railway station when the incident occurred, a doctor from Umrao Hospitals in Mira Road said. “The incident occurred at around 6 am and the woman was travelling with her family. She was brought with a separated left arm above the elbow. We performed a nine-hour surgery that included repairing arteries and nerves to re-join the arm. There is no danger to the woman’s life and her condition is being monitored,” said Dr Ashish Banerji, CEO of Umrao Hospitals. The railway police said they have not been informed about the incident.
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