Mysore/Mysuru: Charging the Government of exploiting ASHA workers by not paying them appropriately for their work, social activist Savitha Pa.Mallesh urged the Government to give all constitutionally mandated facilities to them. She was speaking after inaugurating the district-level convention of ASHA workers, jointly organised under the aegis of Karnataka Rajya Samyukta ASHA Workers Association and…
Consider ASHA workers as Government employees: AIUTUC Secretary
August 4, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: Secretary of All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC) M. Umadevi, has demanded to consider ASHA workers as Government employees and provide due facilities to them. She was addressing a gathering of ASHA workers, after inaugurating the maiden conference of ASHA workers of the city, organised jointly by Karnataka Combined ASHA Workers Association, Mysuru…
ASHA worker takes injured retired teacher to hospital, gets him treatment
November 29, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Shobha, an ASHA worker at Kumbarakoppal Primary Health Centre (PHC), has won the appreciation of the locals for her humanitarian gesture after she, despite her work pressure, chose to shift a retired school teacher to a hospital and ensured timely medical treatment. The retired teacher had fractured a bone in his leg due to…
ASHA workers protest assault on colleague
June 22, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Strongly condemning the assault on a colleague during a survey in H.D. Kote taluk, hundreds of ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers, under the joint banner of Rajya Samyukta ASHA Karyakarteyara Sangha and AITUC (All India Trade Union Centre), staged a protest in front of the office of the District Health Officer (DHO) in…
ASHA workers want more monthly honorarium, other facilities
December 29, 2022Mysuru: Demanding the scrapping of payment through Reproductive Child Health (RCH) portal, increase in honorarium and implementation of their other demands, ASHA workers staged a mammoth protest recently. Hundreds of workers of Karnataka Combined ASHA Workers Association, who arrived from various parts of the district, assembled in front of Deputy Commissioner’s Office and urged for…
ASHA workers to stage protest in Bengaluru on May 17
May 13, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Seeking fulfillment of their various demands, ASHA workers, under the banner of AIUTUC affiliated Karnataka State Samyukta ASHA Workers Association, will stage a demonstration at Bengaluru’s Freedom Park on May 17. Announcing this at a press meet here yesterday, AIUTUC State leader M. Umadevi said that the demands include equal pay for equal work,…
KR Constituency to soon have ‘Namma Clinics’
March 14, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: KR MLA S.A. Ramdas asserted that ‘Namma Clinics’ will come up across the Constituency soon, as announced in this year’s State Budget. He was speaking at ‘Central and State Budget debate and ASHA workers felicitation programme’ organised at his office in Vidyaranyapuram here on Sunday. Underlining the role of ASHA workers in serving the society…
ASHA workers stage protest
November 25, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Urging for fulfilment of their various demands, ASHA workers under the banner of Karnataka State Samyukta ASHA Workers Association, staged a protest in front of District Health and Family Welfare Office at Nazarbad on Tuesday. The protestors said that ASHA workers working in Mysuru city limits are unable to upload the ANC and PNC…
ASHA workers oppose uploading of Data after NCD survey
August 14, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Strongly opposing the uploading of data of NCD (Non-Communicable Diseases) survey to the Health Department through Mobile app, ASHA workers, under the banner of AIUTUC affiliated Karnataka State Samyukta ASHA Workers Association, staged a demonstration in front of the DHO Office in Nazarbad here on Thursday. Maintaining that they faced a lot of hardships and risked…
D.B. Kuppe PHC staff, ASHA workers get solar lamps
July 23, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Moved by a report in Star of Mysore on the plight of ASHA workers and health volunteers who are trying to protect the health of tribals in D.B. Kuppe range of Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, two senior citizens from Bengaluru have distributed the solar lamps with mobile chargers for them. On June 24, SOM had…
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