Special Chief Secretary, Health, Medical and Family Welfare, M.T. Krishna Babu on Tuesday convened a meeting with all community health officers (CHOs), who have been protesting for a while demanding hike in pay, asking them to resume their work without creating further interruption of health services to rural people.
The CHOs have reportedly stopped providing tele-consultation services and conducting the water quality testing in rural areas as of now. The CHOs have reportedly communicated with the officials that they would stop their duties in a phased manner beginning November 20. They are planning to organise a mass dharna in Vijayawada on December 13.
Their demands include revision of salary structure, annual increment, 35 days’ leave in a year, regularisation of their services.
