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GHMC to replace AMOHs with environmental engineers
As a way to curb irregularities, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to replace Assistant Medical Officers for Health (AMOHs) with environmental engineers. The existing AMOHs would be asked to look after primary health centres in the corporation limits. The corporation is also planning to rejig sanitary field assistants (SFAs) in all 24 circles.
Hyderabad: As a way to curb irregularities, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to replace Assistant Medical Officers for Health (AMOHs) with environmental engineers. The existing AMOHs would be asked to look after primary health centres in the corporation limits. The corporation is also planning to rejig sanitary field assistants (SFAs) in all 24 circles.
The AMOHs are responsible for checking the outbreak of epidemics like diarrhoea, issue of birth and death certificates, trade licences, preventing food contamination, and overseeing sanitation works. Every Municipal Circle has an AMOH in-charge of health and sanitation works.
According to GHMC officials, about 90 per cent AMOHs under corporation limits were involved in high-level corruption. Officials said that it had come to their notice that the AMOHs had been demanding about Rs 20,000 to issue birth and death certificates and trade licences to citizens. They said that even 'My GHMC App' had failed to curb their corrupt activities.
A senior GHMC official told The Hans India that the AMOHs and SFAs were facing several allegations of corruption from both public and the authorities. He said SFAs had been maintaining fake attendance registers of sanitation workers.
Many AMOHs, along with SFAs, were not only looting provident fund and others benefits of the sanitation workers, but also causing loss running into crores of rupees for the corporation. In view of their illegal income, most of them were reluctant to leave the corporation even upon completion of their terms, the official said.
The official said that the corporation had already sent proposals to the State government to recruit 30 environmental engineers to replace the AMOHs. All responsibilities of AMOHs would be handed over to the environmental engineers after Diwali i.e. in the second week of November.
The official also said that current AMOHs would treat patients in primary health centres and urban health centres. “If AMOHs oppose work in PHCs, UHCs, they would be surrendered to their parent department after holding a vigilance enquiry,” he said.
