Health workers submit memo to PM
Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh Health Sector Field Level Employees Association, an association of 26 thousand field level health workers, yesterday submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister (PM) and Director General of Health Directorate to press its 5-point demand. Their demands include increasing travel allowance of the health assistants, assistant health inspectors and health inspectors, declaring technical status of the health workers, establishing a professional training institute and arranging training at home and abroad to upgrade the health services. The leaders warned that they would go for tougher movement, including work abstention from vaccination programme, if their demands are not met by July 31. Five leaders of the association went to the PM's office and submitted the memorandum. The health workers also held a brief rally in front of health directorate at Mohakhali in the city. Addressing the rally, the leaders said through their hard work, it has been possible to control the deadly diseases like chickenpox, malaria and diarrhoea but the fate of the health workers has not been changed yet. "We only get Tk 50 to 165 as travel allowances and there is no arrangement for our promotion," they said adding the salary they draw after being promoted is not higher as it should be. "We get assurances from the successive governments, but nothing has been done so far," they said. They urged the government to meet their demands for the sake of the health workers' future.
| 
