PANAJI: The majority of 430 multi-tasking staff (MTs), employed at the height of the second wave of pandemic and given a difficult task to serve in the Covid-19 ward, has not received their first salary even five months.
“We hope we will be paid at least before Ganesh Chaturthi, but except 40, we all have not received our salary,” said a MTs posted in the GMC superspecialization block where Covid-19 patients were treated.
MTs are rented for a monthly salary of RS 17,000.
A satish rose 25 years old, who was unemployed after completing an electronic course in iti, said he decided to work as a MTs in the hope of getting a stable job.
“At the time of hiring, we were told that we would be posted on the Covid-19 ward.
I agree because I have failed to find regular jobs over the past few years.
I raised the body, putting them in body bags, shifting patients to different environments, and waste Separately, but this is where I am, still have to beg from other people to expenditure on my daily, “he said.
Ride said that when he joined in May, he posted in the Covid-19 ward with nine other MTs.
However, within a few days, seven stopped when they were shaken by the view of the dying.
“During our shift, we have to handle two to three bodies every day and then have to shift them into the morgue.
It’s more scary at night, and some can’t handle work,” he said.
A rising colleague who lives in Sattari, said their services have not received recognition when many others are afraid of helping Covid-19 patients.
“Poor parents, won’t be able to find other jobs'” I haven’t even paid for vehicle owners who dropped and picked me up from GMC every day, “he said.” Even though it wasn’t paid, I chose not to stop from work because there was no more for me.
My parents are poor.
I will not be able to find another job.
“Their contract, he said, duration of six months and can be extended with six months.” There is no guarantee that we will have our work next month.
We haven’t paid so far.
It’s not difficult for them to send us home.
We have approached the GMC account office regarding our salary but did not get a clear answer, “he said GMC, said he had processed the salary letters from all the newly recruited MTs and had submitted it to the Directorate of Account before Ganesh Chaturthi.
He said he did not realize that MTs were still unpaid.
“I have to check.
Nothing approaches us so far than non-payment salaries, “said Sardesai.
The name MTs has been changed to protect identity