MULTAN: Lady health visitors (LHV) and other employees recently blocked Multan-Muzaffargarh Highway, demanding their pending salaries.
The protesting workers assembled outside Multan Institute of Kidney Diseases on Sher Shah Road and marched towards Multan-Muzaffargarh Highway. They disrupted traffic on the road. While talking to the media, representatives urged the government to regularise them and release their pending salaries for the last eight months.
The workers protested against the government plan of dismissing 6,000 employees from jobs, rendering services for the last 15 years. They protested against new hiring, which replaced them. The employees were working under the Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department in the IRMNCH's maternal and child healthcare program.
Reportedly, the employees recruited in the remote backward areas under challenging conditions and settled in the ruins and deserted centres in the forests have not received their salaries for the last eight months. Under the guise of black laws, the health department has hinted at laying off 6,000 employees, and an advertisement has been issued for their recruitment, the protesters said.
Employees warned that if they are not regularised, and the atrocities committed against them are not rectified, they would continue protesting indefinitely.
