Health workers call off strike
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LAHORE: Health workers have called off their strike after their negotiations with a supervision valid successful late on Tuesday.
Authorities have also positive that a cabinet would be shaped to confirm that could be regualarised.
Earlier in a day, while holding placards and banners stamped with slogans opposite a privatisation of a health sector, some-more than 400 daily salary workers of a health dialect took to a streets. They hold a sit-in on Tuesday in front of a bureau of a department’s executive general.
This was a second uninterrupted day when employees of a health department, including lady health workers, took to a streets in vast numbers.
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Talking to The Express Tribune, United Health Federation boss Chaudhry Mushtaq Gujjar pronounced a criticism was called off for a day as a health dialect central wanted to accommodate a protesters for negotiations.
He demanded a supervision immediately repel a process of privatisation and emanate acknowledgment letters to all anti-dengue health workers.
“Mostly, these workers are from Basic Health Units (BHUs), polio vaccinators and members of a group of dengue surveillances,” he said, adding these employees have spent some-more than 8 years providing health services during a doorsteps of citizens. Now they are being deprived of their really livelihood.
He pronounced a categorical emanate was that a supervision was formulation to privatise a dengue notice plan and anti-polio vaccination campaigns, while employing new staff on low wages.
A health dialect orator told The Express Tribune that a protesters were regulating astray means for a acceptance of their demands, though a supervision could not be clever armed by such tactics.
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“We follow a customary handling procedures for a acknowledgment of these employees as many of them have already got their letters from a department.”
“We are in negotiations with these workers and let’s see what happens next,” he concluded.
No Privatisation
Meanwhile, Punjab Minister for Primary and Secondary Health Khawaja Imran Nazir has definitely announced that conjunction is any supervision sanatorium being privatised nor is any worker being private from their jobs.
He pronounced usually a supervision of some hospitals was being outsourced, however, a resources and skill would sojourn underneath a tenure of a government.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 1st, 2017.
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