Nagaland Association of Community Health Officers (NACHO) Wednesday launched phase-wise agitation against unpaid salary and performance-based incentive (PBI) of certain community health officers (CHOs) since April 2022.
The association said it decided to launch the agitation in view of the health department and particularly NHM’s failure to resolve the issue even after repeated notices and ultimatums. It said that in the initial phase of agitation, affected CHOs would launch indefinite total cease work under the slogan ‘no pay, no work’ until the issue was resolved.
However, the unaffected CHOs would show solidarity by wearing “black badge” on all official duty and programmes. The first phase of agitation, which commenced on October 11 would continue till October 17. Thereafter, NACHO would intensify agitation if the issue was not resolved within the stipulated period.
NACHO stated that a total of 105 CHOs working at different health and wellness centre (HWC) in rural areas have not received salary and PBI since April 2022. CHOs are appointed under Ayushman Bharat (NHM) for comprehensive health care at grassroots level.
