HYDERABAD: Around 5,000 employees of the Health Management Research Institute (HMRI) '104' service took out a 'Chalo Hyderabad' rally from Sundaraiah Vignana Kendrum to Indira Park on Wednesday demanding that the state government take over the rural health scheme. The staffers from all over the state have been boycotting their duties for the last 22 days and are firm in their demand that the government take complete control over the scheme. They even want that the name of the organisation 'HMRI' be knocked out and the health scheme be known as a state-run '104' service.
Apart from ante-natal check-ups for pregnant women, free medicines for people suffering from blood pressure, hypertension, diabetes, epilepsy and pulmonary disorders are being supplied through the 475 mobile health vans operated through this scheme on a monthly basis. Advice for HIV patients is also being dispensed and each van provides service on a fixed day covering 20 villages in a month. But due to this strike, healthcare services have been paralysed in the rural areas for a month. more
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