Amritsar: Civil Surgeon urged to ensure safety of staff at vax centres

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, July 27

The health employees at vaccination centres entrusted with the task of inoculating residents against Covid-19 have asked the higher-ups to ensure their safety during duty hours.

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No death due to the coronavirus was reported in the district on Tuesday though a person tested positive. The toll remains at 373 so far and the number of active cases has been reduced to six, of which three have been isolated at their respective homes. The Health Department teams collected 928 samples to be tested for the virus, while the report of 524 samples was still awaited from the laboratories. OC

The demand came up after the recent incident at Urban Primary Health Centre (UPHC), Yodhnagar, where an MC councillor allegedly misbehaved with the nurses on duty.

The health employees said local political leaders often interfere in the vaccination drive and ask them to vaccinate their supporters out of turn.

“On the day of the incident, the councillor had reached the UPHC with a few persons and asked the employees to give injections to them on a priority. When the employees expressed their helpless as the said persons were not even registered, the councillor misbehaved with the female employees and used derogatory words,” said Ashok Sharma, a Health Department employees’ leader.

Employees’ leaders Tripta Sharma, Amandeep Kaur, Kuljinder Kaur and others who submitted a letter with the Civil Surgeon’s office in this regard said they have demanded from the higher-ups to lodge a police case, so that action could be taken against those who disrupted a public service and misbehaved with the public servants. They said in case no action is taken against the accused, they would be forced to boycott their duties.