Hakeem welcomes LG’s announcement of spl financial incentives for Covid warriors

Srinagar: Chairman People’s Democratic Front ( PDF) Hakeem Yaseen has welcomed announcement of Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha to provide special Financial Incentives for Covid-19 Warriors of Health and Medical Education Department of J&K.
In a statement issued on Tuesday Hakeem while welcoming announcement of special financial incentive for Covid – 19 warriors, also demanded incentives to the other health care workers especially HDF , ASHA , NHM , Sanitation workers in the health and medical education department despite getting meager wages work sholder to shoulder with doctors and paramedics to control spread of the dragon pandemic . He said all the front line workers of Health & Medical Education Department are rendering extraordinary services in the challenging Covid pandemic situation for saving precious lives of the patients. He said financial incentive to health care workers dealing with pandemic, will go a long way to boost their morale .
Hakeem welcomed the decision of the government to give extension in the services of doctors retiring in near future to ensure availability of human resource in heath care institutions. He had urged the LG to utilise services of all those doctors and civil servants who had acquired ample Covid management experience last year to get benefits of their experience in checking the spread of devastating 2nd wave of the deadly Coviid – pandemic. He said experience of these medical professionals and civil servants would considerably help the administration to effectively deal with the evolving Covid situation.
Hakeem also urged for fast tracking Covid vaccination drive in rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir besides setting of of dedicated Covid- 19 treatment hospitals in remote areas. He has also appealed to the masses to lend helping hand to the administration in its effort to contain spread of the Cobid 19 pandemic which has raised it’s ugly head in nook and corner of Jammu and Kashmir