Provide medical insurance to contractual doctors, paramedical staff: NHRC to Centre, Delhi Govt
Issuing the notices to the Secretary, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the Chief Secretary, Delhi, the Commission has asked them to submit an action taken report in the matter within two weeks.;
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), on the basis of a complaint, asked the Union Health Ministry and the Delhi government to consider providing adequate medical care and financial protection to all the contractual medical and paramedical staff deployed by them.
This may include getting medical insurance to facilitate their treatment in private hospitals in these testing times.
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Issuing the notices to the Secretary, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the Chief Secretary, Delhi, the Commission has asked them to submit an action taken report in the matter within two weeks.
They have also been asked to take immediate steps to provide adequate financial and other support to COVID-19 infected Dr Amit Gupta, Senior Resident Pediatrics of Satyavadi Raja Harishchandra Hospital, Delhi, who is currently admitted in the ICU of the Medanta hospital, Gurugram, and not getting any financial support from the government on the ground that he was engaged on contract basis.
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