jaipur the state governments decision to hand over primary health centres and affiliated subcentres from across the state into private hands to be operated under the public private partnership ppp mode has triggered protest from healthcare staff and social organizations nursing associations along with pharmacists and lab technicians have planned to gherao the health directorate demanding to withdraw the decision on monday moreover they will boycott work for two hours we will protest at the health directorate the government has taken a decision which is not at all beneficial for the people in healthcare a person who opted for nursing courses with a hope that he will get a government job is feeling cheated now at the phcs the private players will rope in nursing staff on contract basis also there is a big difference between the salaries and other benefits in government jobs and private jobs sanjeev yadav district president jaipur rajasthan rajya nursing association united said he said that for the past few days hospital staff is boycotting work for two hours in a phasewise manner to express their protest the protest is happening across the state he said besides the social organizations in the state have strongly opposed governments decision to handover phcs to private bodies and demand that the decision be revoked immediately there are 2082 phcs and affiliated subcentres in the state which will be operational on ppp mode chhaya pancholi of jan swasthya abhiyan jsa rajasthan said that the government should rather increase its spending on health and ensure that there are enough funds for upgradation and strengthening of primary health care infrastructure and systems for effective monitoring of services rather than washing away its hands of its basic responsibility of delivering primary health care pancholi pointed out that as per the announcement by the state these private bodies would be responsible for appointing doctors paramedics and other staff at the healthcare facilities and will have to ensure that quality health services are delivered to all government thus would only act as a financing body and the functioning of the primary health sector would be left in the hands of private providers is what it alternatively suggests and this is something which is extremely tricky and dangerous