Broke on Eid: Dengue workers available salaries as deteriorate approaches
Daily-wagers of dengue plan protesting. PHOTO: AGHA MEHROZ/EXPRESS
KARACHI: Eidul-Fitr is around a dilemma and around 3,000 people who work as dengue workers and vaccinators in a city haven’t been
paid yet.
Faisal Mehmood is one of a employees who work underneath Shalamar Union Council on a contractual basis. These workers perform their duties but their weekly days off and even work on Eid holidays.
He is not alone as around 400 of peers, compared with a Shalamar Union Council, are also watchful to be done permanent by a health dialect given 2011.
Almost each year, a workers are told by a health dialect their practice would be regularised by a subsequent dengue season.
“There is no pursuit confidence that worries me. If they glow me this season, should we dedicate self-murder in front of a health department?” Faisal asked.
At 32, he is a solitary breadwinner of his family. “Every day, when we go to work, we don’t know if we will have this pursuit a subsequent day.”
He combined that if a health dialect was frank about a employees, they contingency endorse their jobs.
“We will go on a strike after Eid if they do not endorse a regularisation,” he said.
When asked, a health dialect orator pronounced a dialect has already handed over permanent pursuit letters to many of a employees.
He combined a dialect had categorised some of them as contractual employees and some as daily wagers, he said. The orator combined that instead of pressuring a health department, they should wait their turns to accept appointment letters.
The cases of dengue see a spike after a monsoon season. “It tact time and a teams are anticipating larvae roughly in each plcae with low water,” pronounced Dr Asad Ashraf, who works as Lahore General Hospital.
“The health dialect is not endangered about a gratification of a employees who save thousands of lives,” he said.
According to a dialect itself, from Jan 1 compartment May 31, 2017, around 713 reliable cases of dengue were reported.
“People should not be disturbed as a health dialect is carrying out dengue campaigns via a city,” pronounced a spokesperson.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jun 22nd, 2017.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1441491/broke-eid-dengue-workers-awaiting-salaries-season-approaches/