With 80 persons at Odathurai village in Gobichettipalayam Taluk testing positive for COVID-19 and the village being demarcated as containment zone, the villagers, who are mostly daily earners, sought
As many as 40 persons at an old age home at Thindal in the city tested COVID-19 positive and were shifted to the Government Erode Medical College and Hospital at Perundurai here on Thursday. The home
Plea to regularise jobs of outsourced workers at Erode medical college
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AAA Members of the Erode District Medical Department Workers’ Association, affiliated to AITUC, have urged Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to regularise the jobs of outsourced workers and also pay minimum wages to non-permanent nurses working at Government Erode Medical College and Hospital (GEMCH) at Perundurai.
In a petition by its president S. Chinnasamy submitted to Mr. Stalin, through Tiruppur MP K. Subbarayan, during his visit to the hospital on Sunday, members said that over 300 jobs for lab technicians, nurse assistants, housekeeping, security, gardeners, were outsourced in the hospital and were recruited and appointed by two private contractors. They were working for one to 15 years in the hospital for a minimum wage while nurses who had completed diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery were paid a maximum salary of ₹ 12,000 per month. “It is unfortunate that they
A COVID-19 victim’s family has alleged that money was demanded from them for packing and transporting the body to the crematorium here on May 29. After testing positive, Palanisamy (65) of Shastri Nag