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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | At the forefront of India’s healthcare system, ASHA workers soldier on — unprotected and poorly paid -Anuradha Raman

At the forefront of India’s healthcare system, ASHA workers soldier on — unprotected and poorly paid -Anuradha Raman

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published Published on Jul 4, 2020   modified Modified on Jul 6, 2020

-The Hindu

Every government health scheme, including the one to fight COVID-19, needs ASHA workers to implement it at the grassroots level. So why can’t they at least be paid on time?

If Anita Sharma*, an ASHA worker (or Accredited Social Health Activist), had a Twitter account, she could have tagged @drharshvardhan, the health minister, and introduced herself thus: My name is Anita. My job profile has changed since the coronavirus pandemic. These days I work for more than 12 hours. My meagre salary of 2,000 per month, which was only raised to 4,000 last year, has not been paid. In fact, I have not been paid at all since February.

The social media platform may have amplified her voice and drawn the attention of the movers and shakers. It might have also led to a flurry of tweets of commiseration. The outrage and publicity generated might have even raised hopes that her salary backlog would be credited into her account in one lump sum.

But that was not meant to be. Instead, Anita keeps her head low, covers her face with a mask stitched from her old clothes, washes her hands as frequently as she can (she doesn’t want to run out of the only 500ml bottle of santiser given by the government), and goes about her job in Haryana with a prayer on her lips. “They expect us to do everything but don’t give us even the minimum protection,” says Anita.

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The Hindu, 4 July, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/society/at-the-forefront-of-indias-healthcare-system-asha-workers-soldier-on-unprotected-and-poorly-paid/article31979010.ece?homepage=true&fbclid=IwAR2B19G7ziefy934ZzwkX_m_pZUTKtT4rDVC_hksUmWEG6vMAX-jEf6lw


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