pune health workers appointed on a contract basis at various hospitals under the national health mission have been protesting against premature termination of their contracts since september 2the health workers said their latest threemonth contract or in some cases four months started on july 1 and should have ended on september 30 however they were told to leave without any prior notice on august 31 almost 85plus nurses and some other staffers appointed at the sassoon hospital said they had not been paid salaries for the last two monthsa nurse appointed on a contract basis at the sassoon hospital said i joined in may 2020 and worked through the worst covid waves seen by the district now despite two months remaining in our fourmonth contract they are throwing us outa nurse hailing from latur said we feel cheated had we worked in a private hospital at least our salaries would have been timely and after a year they would have given us some increment a contract health worker under the pmc said they could not seek help from the labour court and other avenues as the contractual labour force was unorganised a senior official said when the union government says that there is no need to continue their services as the covid situation is under control or dont release the grant we have no option but to let them goin pune district 594 people were appointed on contract basis we have paid them july salaries while the august salary will be credited by wednesday he said