Syed Yasin, the former Raichur MLA, asked the State government to regularise C and D group contract labourers working at Rajiv Gandhi Super-Specialty Hospital, better known as OPEC Hospital, in Raichur. He was addressing a press conference at Reporters Guild in Raichur on Sunday. “C and D group labourers working at OPEC Hospital on contract basis are getting around Rs. 5,000 and Rs. 7,000 a month respectively. Their counterparts in other State-owned medical colleges are being paid double the amount. The government should take measures to increase their wages and regularise their services,” he said.
Mr. Yasin also demanded that the State government make OPEC Hospital an autonomous institute for the better management and development of the super-specialty hospital.
Autonomous institute
“The Special Administrative Officer of OPEC Hospital does not have power to spend a single rupee without taking approval from Director of Raichur Institute of Medical Sciences, which the super-specialty hospital is attached to.
“This has become a predicament for the development of the hospital,” he said.
He warned that the only super-specialty hospital in the Hyderabad-Karnataka region would take the path of decline, if it was made not made an autonomous institute.
Airstrip at Yermarus
Mr. Yasin said the district administration should not propose the 402 acres of land reserved for the airstrip at Yermarus for the establishment of the proposed Indian Institute of Technology, when an expert team from the Union government would visit the district.
‘Contract workers at OPEC Hospital are getting only around Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 7,000 a month’
‘OPEC Hospital should be made an autonomous institute for better development’
