Hunger strike by medical representatives in Andhra Pradesh

Visakhapatnam: The Medical and Sales Representatives Union, Vizag unit, Andhra Pradesh resorted to one day hunger strike pressing their outstanding demands and called for resolution of their long-pending issues on Monday.

The Union also urged for issuing of government ID cards and to give a call for tripartite committee meeting immediately to discuss the pressing issues of the sector.

Their main demands included:

• wage hike implementation as per wage board recommendations


• identifying the medical representatives as highly-skilled workers


• taking steps to reduce medicines prices


• reviving government medical companies,


• free medicines to poor


• punishing firms managements for violating Sales Promotion Employees (SPE) Act

The Union hopes that its legitimate demands will be sympathetically considered by the authorities reports The Hans India.