ASHA WORKER AS HUMAN RESOURCE AND PROBLEM FACED BY THEM BEFORE AND AFTER COVID-19

Abstract

The ASHA workers are working as a frontline warrior during the COVID-19 pandemic. They
have to cover every health and nutrition-related issues within their community. After the
COVID-19, their work increases rapidly. ASHA workers are voluntary workers, but the irony
is that the ASHA worker themselves have no proper rights, and some of them cannot even
fulfill their basic needs. So in this paper, the problems of ASHA workers before and after
COVID-19 will be discussed, based on both primary and secondary data collecting from subcenter under Bhagamukh PHC of Assam.