Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, May 20: The National Health Mission Employees’ Association (NHMEA) today said that Emergency Covid Response Package (ECRP) and the National Health Mission scheme were separate and that the same was not related in any case.
In a statement issued here, Association’s Chief Spokesperson, Abdul Rouf said that it is receiving queries from different quarters about the perceived discontinuation of funding for the NHM scheme and its employees in view of protests by certain healthcare workers for the continuation of their services.
“In its backdrop, it is hereby clarified that the healthcare workers protesting for the continuation of their jobs in Jammu and other places had been temporarily engaged for Covid mitigation measures in the state under Emergency Covid Response Package (ECRP) for three months,” NHMEA said.
The Association said that both are different and underlined that 10,000 NHM employees which include doctors, paramedics, managers, and support staff are working in different hospitals across the UT and have been working under NHM for the last 15 years consistently.
“Though the Association has no objection in supporting the demands of the protesting employees but using the general terminology “NHM employees” is not proper as it creates confusion in the society,” the Association said.
As such it is impressed upon all stakeholders and media persons to specifically mention the category of the employees (ERCP/ Emergency Covid Care employees) while referring to the protesting employees, “since they are a special category of a limited number of employees engaged under ECRP temporarily.”
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