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Travails of ASHA Workers During COVID-19 Call for Renewed Focus on Public Health -Deepanshu Mohan, Jignesh Mistry, Advaita Singh, Sunanda Mishra and Shivani Agarwal

-TheWire.in

ASHA workers and other community healthcare workers have experienced extra working hours, loss of pay and social apathy during the pandemic.

Walking into 2021, if there was one positive to be identified with the large-scale outbreak of a pandemic in 2020 in India, and the rest of the developing world, it would have been this: a primary focus given by most governments and their executive agencies to improve healthcare services and ensure more affordable access of them for large scale populations. This has been done irrespective of the ‘fiscal limitations’ and ‘weak governance systems’ cited earlier as reasons for making healthcare a lesser priority, and an area of investment to be outsourced to the private sector.

Notwithstanding, in the context of the Central government’s own response and by most of the states, one section of frontline healthcare workers, the ASHA workers, or the accredited social health activists, responsible for ensuring last-mile delivery of essential healthcare services (in areas of reproductive care, child nutrition, etc.), received little to no support even as most of the workers were put on COVID-19 testing duties in their localities, crumbling under the weight of rising infections and insufficient infrastructure.

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