Balbir Sidhu announces incentive of Rs 1500 to ASHAs for Covid-19 related work
The Health & Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu today announced additional incentive of Rs 1500 to Accredited Social Health Activist
Chandigarh: The Health & Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu today announced additional incentive of Rs 1500 to Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) for Covid-19 related work.
Giving details, Sidhu said that Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh led Punjab Government has acknowledged the tremendous efforts being made by more than 20,000 ASHAs & ASHA Facilitators (17,174 Rural ASHAs, 2,532 Urban ASHAs and 869 ASHA Facilitators) across the State in undertaking a range of community-based interventions related to containment of Covid-19 spread.
It has included community awareness through home visits on key aspects related to Covid-19 transmission and prevention, contact tracing, facilitating access to testing etc.
Underscoring the efforts being made by ASHAs, he said that ASHAs have covered more than 50 lacs households and surveyed around 2.5 Crore population under screening campaign.
He said that ASHAs are one of the significant and valuable members of the health system who are actively working at the grass-root level to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Recognizing the role of ASHAs & ASHA Facilitators as Covid Warrior, Punjab Government would continue to give incentive of Rs 1500 per month from July month onwards for undertaking Covid related additional work.
Sidhu said that he also instructed the Director, National Health Mission to ensure timely payments of ASHAs and Facilitators by 7th of every month.