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Publish Date : 27-Nov-2018

Health sector unions and social organizations are demanding strengthening of public health services in Maharashtra. They are forming an alliance called the Alliance for Defence of Health Services and Rights, which includes various NGOs working in the field of health, along with trade unions and federations of health sector employees in Maharashtra.

The alliance is being formally launched on November 26 by organising a Convention for commitment to build joint movement on Health Rights (Nirdhaar Parishad) in Mumbai.

This convention will finalize the key demands to be taken up in the coming period and will initiate a sustained combined movement by all involved organisations, to resolve various long pending issues related to health rights of the public as well as rights of health sector employees.

One of the Convenors of the alliance, Dr Abhijit More said, Key issues being raised by the alliance include inadequate budget for healthcare, lack of guaranteed health services, massive shortage of essential medicines, large scale vacant posts, corruption and lack of transparency in health systems, adverse policies of contractualisation and privatisation, poor working conditions for front line health staff, and most importantly, the need to restore political will, which is urgently required to improve the public health system.

More also said, Keeping in view the massive and continued shortage of medicines in government hospitals and health centres across the state, radical changes need to be made in the drug procurement and distribution system in Maharashtra, which must be on war-footing. These changes should be on the lines of effective medicine systems in Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala.

They have also demanded that current policies of relying on contractual appointments and privatization must be abolished. Instead, a new comprehensive Health Humanpower Policy for the state, based on strengthening public health services with regular staff appointments, must be formulated and implemented.

This would ensure provision of adequate compensation to all health workers and doctors at various levels, good working conditions and periodic promotions.

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