Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 23: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today demanded risk allowances and two and a half-day salary for the employees of the Health Department for attending night duties, on-call duties and duties on gazetted holidays across J&K.
President DAK Dr Suhail Naik said that the doctors and other health care workers are working day-night tirelessly to sustain uninterrupted services and are managing both pandemic and non-COVID patients successfully at the cost of their own life.
“Our fraternity has lost many doctors and paramedics while dealing with this devastating pandemic which has collapsed the health sectors across the globe,” he said.
He said that the doctors are under constant potential threat to contract many infectious diseases and “it is unfortunate that successive governments have failed to provide much-desired risk allowances to fraternity,” he said.
Dr Owais H Dar, General Secretary DAK said that the ongoing pandemic has invariably increased the risk of contracting the lethal infection and then spreading it to family members.
He said that the front line health workers are working round the clock to provide treatment to both COVID and non-covid patients.
Dr Imtiyaz Banday Spokesperson DAK stressed that despite innumerable assurances from higher-ups, none of our genuine demands were fulfilled to date.
DAK has appealed to the LG, Manoj Sinha to personally intervene in the matter at the earliest so that the morale of the fatigued fraternity shall be elevated in these crises.
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