Health secretaries demand reduction of workload
The HinduAround 400 ANMs, coming under the purview of the village and ward secretariats in the State, staged a protest at Dharna Chowk in city on Thursday, demanding that the workload be decreased. While there are around 18,000 ANMs in the State, most of them, around 13,500, fall under the purview of the village and ward secretariats and are called health secretaries, and the remaining fall under the purview of Medical and Health Department. This means, health secretaries report both to secretariats and medical officers, while the remaining 4,000 ANMs report to only medical officers, explained A.P. For the past three years, the health secretaries have been trying in vain to bring to the notice of officials about the work pressure they are being subjected to, Mr. Nageswara Rao said. Overworked and burned out, many of them have been staging State-wide protests for the past three years to highlight their plight, Mr. Nageswara Rao said, adding that despite clear instructions from Health Chief Secretary M.T.
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