Contract healthcare workers protest in Hyderabad

Field level contract healthcare workers participated in a one-hour protest at government hospitals on Tuesday, demanding immediate wage hike and addressing their other grievances

Led by the Telangana Medical Contract Employees and Workers Union (affiliated with AITUC), the workers announced a mass protest dharna at DME office, Koti on Thursday and



threatened to halt essential services and launch a hospital strike if their grievances were unresolved.

AITUC State Deputy General Secretary M Narasimha said contrary to state government claims contract workers were paid on the first of every month, the sanitation, patient care, and security workers in government hospitals were still waiting for their salaries.