Pune Zilla Parishad workers contribute one day's salary, raise 1.27 crore to improve health services

The money would be given as an incentive to doctors serving the Covid-19 patients, in addition to their salaries, Pune Zilla Parishad CEO Ayush Prasad said.

The Pune Zilla Parishad employees have contributed their one day's salary to raise ₹1.97 crore to help improve the health services in rural areas of the district amid the Covid-19 pandemic, an official said.

Ayush Prasad, chief executive officer (CEO) of Zilla Parishad, had earlier said that 35,000 antigen kits would be given to 234 hotspots in rural Pune for mass testing. (PTI)

The money would be given as an incentive to doctors serving the Covid-19 patients, in addition to their salaries, Pune Zilla Parishad CEO Ayush Prasad told PTI on Monday.

"The Zilla Parishad employees here in Maharashtra, all of whom are frontline workers, have contributed one day's salary to raise ₹1.97 crore," he said.

The official said they have published advertisements in newspapers of various states to hire 130 doctors.

"We aim to have the best doctors with us in the fight against Covid-19 and save the lives of people living in rural areas of Pune," he said.