After junior doctors, contract, and paramedical staff: second stir grips Andhra’s health department
Contract and paramedical employees in Andhra Pradesh have launched a graded agitation to protest the government's failure to address their long-standing grievances. The protest will escalate from wearing black badges to a potential full duty boycott by early September.
Why it matters
The strike threatens to disrupt essential public health services, including electronic health records and primary health center operations, impacting patient care across the state.
Contract and paramedical employees working across the State’s Health, Medical and Family Welfare Department launched the first phase of a graded agitation on Friday (August 21, 2026), with the Andhra Pradesh Medical and Health Contract Employees Joint Action Committee (JAC) alleging that the government had failed to even acknowledge their demands despite a large protest in Vijayawada on June 17.
G. Koteswara Rao, chairman of the JAC and a staff nurse at the King George Hospital (KGH), Visakhapatnam , told The Hindu that the government “did not address” the committee’s demands and had “not even recognised” that the problems existed, even after that protest. He appealed to Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav and G. Veerapandian, Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, to intervene and resolve the issues.
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