Lady health workers reiterate demands

MULTAN:

Lady health workers’ protest for fulfillment of their demands caused long queues of traffic in the city as they blocked the road from Kachehri Chowk to Ghanta Ghar.

Under the national employees health program, a large number of lady health workers gathered at the District Health Authority office where they chanted slogans and demanded upgrade of all cadres. They said fuel allowance should be paid to them as well.

In this regard, the chairperson of National Health Employees Association, Sajida Hameed said that the workers are not being listened to by the CEO health. Later, negotiations between the protesters and the CEO Health were successful.

Health CEO Dr Arshad Malik also formed a committee to approve the demands.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 28^th, 2021.