Female health workers and polio workers deployed in the anti-polio drive in Rawalpindi have protested against non payment of salaries.
The Punjab government has decided not to pay salaries to polio workers, female health workers, sanitary patrol workers, and other employees engaged in the polio awareness campaign.
The employees have also announced their refusal to provide services in the next anti-polio campaign if they are not paid their salaries.
The workers boycotted the meeting called by the department for issuing new guidelines and a large number of polio workers, and ladies health workers staged a demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office, threatening a stage in if their demands were not met.
