Archive · 5 Sep 2026
Andhra Pradesh Government Eases Rules for Contract Health Staff
The Andhra Pradesh government is changing some work rules for contract health employees.
Radiographers who complete 11 months of service can take 30 special leave days.
These days will not reduce their normal leave.
Nurses and other health workers who help with surgeries may receive incentive payments.
Hospitals must show information about surgeries and payments on notice boards.
Primary health centres will arrange support workers for day and night duties.
Nurses should share duties so one person does not repeatedly work 12-hour shifts.
ANMs can help with duty arrangements when needed.
Medical laboratory students can train at health centres for one month.
Contract radiographers and radiographic technicians will receive 30 days of special leave after every 11 months of service.
Eligible contract paramedical staff will receive cadre-wise NTR Vaidya Seva Trust incentives for surgeries and procedures.
Hospitals must display monthly details of surgeries, participating staff, and incentives on notice boards.
Primary health centres will deploy MNOs and FNOs during the day and Sanitary Attendants/Workers at night.
PHCs will rotate nurses’ duties, use ANMs where needed, and allow medical laboratory students one-month clinical training.
- Who
- The Andhra Pradesh government, contract health employees, health officials, nurses, paramedical staff, and medical laboratory students.
- What
- The government announced service benefits, incentive access, staffing arrangements, workload adjustments, and training opportunities for contract health workers and related staff.
- When
- The measures were announced after reviews conducted following Health Minister Y Satya Kumar Yadav’s directions; specific implementation dates were not stated.
- Where
- Government teaching hospitals, primary health centres, and urban primary health centres in Andhra Pradesh.
- Why
- To address long-pending service grievances, improve staff deployment, reduce nurses’ workload, and increase transparency in incentive payments.
- Special leave
- Eligible contract radiographers and radiographic technicians in teaching-hospital X-ray and radiology departments will receive 30 days of compulsory special leave after every 11 months of service.
- Leave treatment
- The special leave will not be deducted from employees’ regular leave accounts.
- NTRVST incentives
- Eligible contract staff nurses, OT technicians, anaesthesia technicians, laboratory technicians, pharmacists, and other paramedical personnel may receive cadre-wise incentives for surgeries and procedures.
- Transparency
- Monthly surgery, participating-staff, and incentive-payment details must be displayed on hospital notice boards.
- PHC deployment
- Male Nursing Orderlies and Female Nursing Orderlies will generally be deployed during the day, while Sanitary Attendant/Workers will support night duties.
- Nurse scheduling
- Where three nurses are posted and one is on leave, duties should be rotated among the remaining staff, with ANMs used where required to avoid continuous 12-hour day shifts.
- Student training
- DMLT and B.Sc. (MLT) students may complete one month of clinical training at PHCs and UPHCs as part of their six- or 12-month courses.
