{"id":124383,"date":"2020-05-12T04:03:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T22:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=124383"},"modified":"2020-05-12T04:03:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T22:33:46","slug":"aapsu-seeks-permanent-health-infrastructures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/05\/12\/aapsu-seeks-permanent-health-infrastructures\/","title":{"rendered":"AAPSU seeks permanent health infrastructures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>ITANAGAR, May 11:<\/strong> The All Arunachal Pradesh Students&#8217; Union [AAPSU] has called for establishing permanent health infrastructures in the state.<br \/>\n&#8220;The weak health infrastructure and shortage of manpower have been exposed during this current Covid-19 pandemic,&#8221; the union said in a representation to the health &amp; family welfare secretary and the NHM&#8217;s state mission director on Monday, and demanded creation of permanent assets in the health sector instead of creating &#8220;makeshift infrastructures which only give temporary respite.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;We demand filling up of manpower gaps and infrastructure shortages in all hospitals, CHCs, PHCs, etc, in line with the current IPHS norms,&#8221; the AAPSU said in the representation.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the union has urged the health &amp; family welfare secretary and the NHM&#8217;s state mission director to extend the date for applying for the posts of medical officers (MBBS), nurses and other health staffers under the NHM to enable interested candidates to apply.<br \/>\n&#8220;Many interested candidates could not apply for the jobs due to Covid-19-induced lockdown,&#8221; the union said.<br \/>\nIt also expressed displeasure over the meagre payment being offered to those who would be hired as nurses for dedicated Covid-19 duties in the state.<br \/>\nThe union said there was an advertisement for filling up 100 posts of nurses on contract\/hire basis for Covid-19 duties, with a consolidated payment of Rs 20,000 per month without other facilities.<br \/>\nIt said the salary was too meagre for frontline workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, May 11: The All Arunachal Pradesh Students&#8217; Union [AAPSU] has called for establishing permanent health infrastructures in the state. &#8220;The weak health infrastructure and shortage of manpower have been exposed during this current Covid-19 pandemic,&#8221; the union said in a representation to the health &amp; family welfare secretary and the NHM&#8217;s state mission director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-124383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}