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The Indian Association of Physiotherapists - Tamil Nadu Branch (TN IAP) has welcomed the State government’s determination to summation the monthly wage of physiotherapists moving nether the Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam strategy to ₹23,000.
Thanking the Chief Minister, the relation requested that the revised wage beryllium implemented from the existent month. Under the scheme, an inducement of ₹4,500 was primitively fixed for providing home-based physiotherapy services to 5 beneficiaries per day. However, the people has present been accrued to 10 beneficiaries, portion the inducement remains unchanged. In immoderate districts, inducement payments are besides delayed, it said, urging authorities to guarantee timely monthly disbursal.
Also, physiotherapists moving successful Urban Primary Health Centres were presently engaged connected an outsourcing ground and should beryllium brought nether the District Health Society and provided the aforesaid wage operation arsenic those nether the scheme, the relation said. It besides called for societal information benefits specified arsenic Provident Fund and insurance. TN IAP besides suggested announcing State-wide helpline numbers truthful that beneficiaries tin straight registry to person services nether the scheme.
Additonally, the relation said physiotherapists moving with children with intelligence disabilities nether the Integrated School Education Scheme had not received immoderate wage summation for the past six years and urged the authorities to instrumentality contiguous steps to revise their pay.
