Pakistan: Lady health workers demonstrate in Multan over unpaid salaries
Multan, Pakistan: Several lady health visitors (LHV) and other employees blocked the Multan-Muzaffargarh Highway in Pakistan as they demanded their pending salaries.
The protesting workers assembled outside Multan Institute of Kidney Diseases on Sher Shah Road and marched towards Multan-Muzaffargarh Highway, reported The News International.
The demonstrators also obstructed traffic movement.
Talking to reporters on the occasion, representatives of the protesters, Bushra Khanum, Nayab Gul, Anila Saba and others, urged the government to regularize them and release their pending salaries, reported the newspaper.
The workers even protested against the government's plan of dismissing 6,000 employees from jobs, rendering services for the last 15 years.
They even alleged that the new recruitments were replacing them.
The employees were working under the Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department in the maternal and child healthcare program of IRMNCH, the newspaper reported.
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