Kannur district to offer healthcare to migrant employees

Express News Service
KANNUR: When the primary wave of Covid hit, the Kannur district administration and well being division paid particular consideration to migrant employees who selected to remain again right here.

The administration has as soon as once more come to the rescue of migrant employees who misplaced their jobs within the second wave and are discovering it tough to get sufficient medical consideration, together with Covid therapy.

Kannur District Collector TV Subhash has launched a novel initiative, ‘Athidhi Devo Bhava’, to offer sufficient consideration and care to the well being problems with the employees from different states.

“This is the first such initiative in the state,” mentioned Subhash. “These are tough times and migrant workers too need proper healthcare,” he mentioned. His concept has been accepted by the principal secretary (income) and steps have been initiated to kickstart the undertaking as early as attainable.

Since migrant employees are an unorganised and floating inhabitants, their well being points will not be being addressed correctly by way of current well being schemes of the federal government and authorities institutions like ESI, which goal the labour class. It is on this context that the brand new scheme has been envisaged, mentioned Subhash.

As of now, a three-tier healthcare system – major, secondary and tertiary – is already in place within the state and receiving large appreciation. The identical could be supplied to migrant employees by way of the brand new undertaking. However, this requires particular focus, contemplating the distinctive ethnic and cultural features of the group.

As per the plan, the main focus could be given on major medical and surgical healing companies, preventive and promotive well being care companies, occupational well being consciousness programmes and complete welfare actions on the major degree with the help of the labour division. A major well being centre shall be arrange in Kannur block panchayat, which homes nearly all of migrant labourers within the district. Required infrastructure, like constructing and premises, could be arrange by inviting donations from the general public or industrial corporations.

At the secondary degree, an inpatient facility shall be arrange at Pazhayangadi taluk hospital. National Health Mission will assist with human sources and logistics at each ranges.

Under tertiary care, a ward shall be arrange within the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), Pariyaram. The district administration has reached an understanding with the MCH on this. The ward can have 13 beds every for female and male Covid sufferers. Five ventilators shall be out there too.

A cell clinic too shall be began underneath the undertaking to carry medical camps in locations the place migrant employees stay in giant teams.

 For implementing the primary section, Subhash has sanctioned Rs 75 lakh to Kannur MCH to enhance its infrastructure. A sum of Rs 1.76 crore from the PM CARES fund additionally shall be used for the undertaking’s implementation.