Health department employees in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir staged a strike at Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) in Muzaffarabad, demanding immediate acceptance of their long-pending Charter of Demands.
Working as health workers under the Maternal Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) Programme these women are surviving on merely a monthly remuneration of 8,000 Pakistani Rupees.
The health workers have been staging an indefinite strike at the gate of Shastri Park outside the district hospital from December 15 demanding their regularisation.
Multan [Pakistan], February 15 (ANI): Lady health workers in Pakistan's Punjab province blocked the Multan-Muzaffargarh Highway demanding their pending salaries and protested against the government's plan to dismiss 6,000 employees from jobs who had been rendering services for the last 15 ye