<p class="title">Pourakarmikas will be employed in accordance with the city’s population, Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) Mayor Premananda Shetty said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Following directions from the government, MCC will be appointing over 700 pourakarmikas. The services of pourakarmikas, working on a contract basis for private companies, will be regularised and they will receive all benefits,” said the mayor while inaugurating a medical camp organised for the first batch of pourakarmikas by MCC and the Department of Community Medicine, Yenepoya Medical College (Deemed to be University) at Town Hall in Mangaluru.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Premananda Shetty said MCC was redressing the problems of pourakarmikas in a phased manner.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The free health check-up is one among the many programmes, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The MCC was paying Rs 12 lakh annually as a premium for insurance coverage given to pourakarmikas, he said and added that 528 members were being benefited by the cashless health insurance scheme.</p>.<p class="bodytext">MCC Commissioner Akshy Sridhar said such medical camps for pourakarmikas will be held once in three months.</p>.<p><strong>‘Covid champions’</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">The medical camp for the second batch of pourakarmikas will be held on Sunday, he said and appealed to pourakarmikas to get their booster shots.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Dr Rajendra K V hailed pourakarmikas as ‘Covid champions’.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The pourakarmikas have toiled from 6 am to 2 pm ignoring their own health,” he said and added that more benefits will be realised when medical camps are held at regular intervals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also interacted with pourakarmikas and made enquiries on whether they were receiving all facilities like gloves, among others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A pourakarmika S Lakshmi Bai’s jaw dropped on being informed that it was the deputy commissioner himself who had interacted with her. She immediately accosted him and submitted her grievances to him.</p>.<p class="bodytext">MCC Health Officer Dr Manjayya Shetty, Covid Nodal Officer Dr Annaya Kullal, former mayor Divakar, Associate Dean, YMC, Dr Abhay Nirgude, Professor and Head of Community Medicine, YMC, Dr Poonam R Naik, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, YMC, Dr Shubhankar Adhikari, Senior Relations Consultant, YMC, Bhaskar Aras, among others, were also present.</p>
<p class="title">Pourakarmikas will be employed in accordance with the city’s population, Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) Mayor Premananda Shetty said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Following directions from the government, MCC will be appointing over 700 pourakarmikas. The services of pourakarmikas, working on a contract basis for private companies, will be regularised and they will receive all benefits,” said the mayor while inaugurating a medical camp organised for the first batch of pourakarmikas by MCC and the Department of Community Medicine, Yenepoya Medical College (Deemed to be University) at Town Hall in Mangaluru.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Premananda Shetty said MCC was redressing the problems of pourakarmikas in a phased manner.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The free health check-up is one among the many programmes, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The MCC was paying Rs 12 lakh annually as a premium for insurance coverage given to pourakarmikas, he said and added that 528 members were being benefited by the cashless health insurance scheme.</p>.<p class="bodytext">MCC Commissioner Akshy Sridhar said such medical camps for pourakarmikas will be held once in three months.</p>.<p><strong>‘Covid champions’</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">The medical camp for the second batch of pourakarmikas will be held on Sunday, he said and appealed to pourakarmikas to get their booster shots.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Dr Rajendra K V hailed pourakarmikas as ‘Covid champions’.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The pourakarmikas have toiled from 6 am to 2 pm ignoring their own health,” he said and added that more benefits will be realised when medical camps are held at regular intervals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also interacted with pourakarmikas and made enquiries on whether they were receiving all facilities like gloves, among others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A pourakarmika S Lakshmi Bai’s jaw dropped on being informed that it was the deputy commissioner himself who had interacted with her. She immediately accosted him and submitted her grievances to him.</p>.<p class="bodytext">MCC Health Officer Dr Manjayya Shetty, Covid Nodal Officer Dr Annaya Kullal, former mayor Divakar, Associate Dean, YMC, Dr Abhay Nirgude, Professor and Head of Community Medicine, YMC, Dr Poonam R Naik, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, YMC, Dr Shubhankar Adhikari, Senior Relations Consultant, YMC, Bhaskar Aras, among others, were also present.</p>