Corporation of Cochin and Maradu Municipality have firmed up plans to spread the reach of health certificates for workers, especially those working in hotels and catering units.
Health Standing Committee Chairman of the Corporation, T.K. Ashraf, told The Hindu recently that the Corporation’s Health wing had intensified checks on hotels and eateries with focus on health certificates for workers.
He said that the association of hotels and restaurant owners would be involved in the process of ensuring that workers in their establishments received health certificates from government doctors.
Inspection of some hotels and restaurants in the city revealed that workers’ health was a key concern, especially with a large number of workers from other parts of the country being employed in eateries and hotels, he added.
The programme to procure health certificates for workers would be undertaken in such a way that obtaining these certificates would be tied to the renewal of licences for the hotel and eatery units.
New Year deadline
Chairman of Maradu Municipality T.K. Devarajan said that the Municipal authority would insist on health certificates for migrant workers, especially those working in hotels and eateries, from January 1.
This is a process the Municipal authority had launched about a year-and-a-half ago, he said.
The programme is now being revived to ensure that all migrant workers have health cards from a doctor of medicine, preferably a doctor from a government institution, by the New Year.
The municipal authority’s intention has been conveyed to the migrant worker community through health inspectors and workers, Mr. Devarajan said.
He said that there was not much of a resistance from the workers and expected them to obtain the certificates by the deadline set by the municipal authority.
There are around 600 workers from other States working within the municipal area on a permanent basis. There is also a smaller floating group of workers, he said.
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