Overdue salaries: LHWs not paid for last two months

Protesters demanded that the Health Department take notice of the delay and release their salaries as soon as possible

FARUKA: Lady health workers in the Sahiwal tehsil have claimed that they have not been given their salaries for the last two months. Talking to reporters during a small demonstration on Tuesday, the protesting lady health workers said that they worked hard all month, but the government did not care about them. They said the government was not bothered if their (workers’) children went to bed hungry. They demanded that the Health Department take notice of the delay and release their salaries as soon as possible.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 22^nd, 2014.