Srinagar, May 21: National Health Mission Employees Association (Jammu and Kashmir) has urged media houses not to misconstrue the Association for Emergency Covid Care employees with the latter pressing for continuation of their services.
“The National Health Mission Employees Association is receiving queries from different quarters (media, employees, social circles etc) about the perceived discontinuation of funding for NHM scheme and its employees in view of protests by certain healthcare workers for continuation of their services. In this backdrop, it is hereby clarified that the healthcare workers protesting for continuation of their jobs in Jammu and other places had basically been temporarily engaged for Covid mitigation measures in the state under Emergency Covid Response Package (ECRP) for a period of three months. They are separate/different from more than 10,000 NHM employees (doctors, paramedics, managers, support staff) who are working in different hospitals across the UT and have been working under NHM for the last 15 years on a consistent basis”, reads a handout received here.
“Though the Association has no objection to and supports the demands of the protesting employees, using the general terminology NHM employees is not proper as it creates confusion in the society”, the handout reads.
“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 on temporary basis”, concludes the handout.
