Workers of the 104 and 108 ambulance services issued a strike notice to Minister of Health, Family Welfare and Medical Education Vidadala Rajini and other officials of the Health Department on January 8 (Monday), demanding that the promises made by Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to them before the 2019 elections be fulfilled.
A.V. Nageswara Rao, president of the 108, 104 and Thalli Bidda Express Workers’ Union, affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said a common demand across the three sections is that they be made part of the Andhra Pradesh Corporation of Outsourced Services, a promise that the Chief Minister had made to the workers before the 2019 elections.
“At present, they all come under a private owner (Aurobindo Emergency Medical Services). We are not asking for a pay hike or even regularisation of services. We are only demanding that those working in 108, 104 and Thalli Bidda Express be made part of APCOS, so that they have job security,” Mr. Nageswara Rao said.
