AMCWA president Rajasana Sinam said that healthcare workers including doctors, nurses and MTS recruited on contractual basis during peak of COVID-19 pandemic seems to be completely devalued by the government.
During the past 2 years, the pandemic has taken a significant toll on the US healthcare workforce left them in fear combined with stress, burnout, and fatigue.
An Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) worker in Andhra Pradesh died on Sunday, with fellow workers alleging that she died after receiving the coronavirus vaccine. The incident took place at the Government General Hospital (GGH) in Guntur.
The exact cause of the woman s death would be revealed only after a post-mortem, Guntur district collector Samuel Anand said, but maintained that not a single Adverse Event Following Immunisation was reported in the district. So far, 10,099 healthcare staff in the area have been inoculated.
ASHA workers staged a demonstration in front of the GGH demanding that a compensation of Rs 50 lakh be paid to the deceased s family.