Ongole: Plea to provide fixed job chart to health secretaries

Ongole: Madiga Sankshema Porata Samithi state president Kommu Sujan Madiga, Bahujan Samaj Party district president Thatiparti Venkata Swamy and others met the Ongole Municipal Commissioner K Bhagyalakshmi in her chamber on Thursday and explained about the plight of the health secretaries appointed in the ward secretariats. They demanded that the commissioner release a fixed job chart for the health secretaries and to whom they should report so that they could get relief from unnecessary pressures from all other officials.

In the representation submitted to the commissioner, the MSPS thanked the Chief Minister for the introduction of the village and ward secretariat system. The leaders explained to the commissioner that thousands from the Dalit, weaker and downtrodden sections of society are working as the health secretaries and they are being subjected to unnecessary work pressures by forcing them to do the duties of ANMs at UPHC, PHC, and PP Units also.

They listed several activities from the identification of Covid 19 symptomatic persons to tracing their primary and secondary contacts, tracking their health status, updating the details in the apps along with many applications being uploaded by the health secretaries. They said that the health secretaries are tired and subjected to pressure with all types of the activities and demanded the concerned authorities to announce a fixed job chart to them so that they can work more effectively and report to one superior officer than multiple officers at the same time.