KARACHI: Polio workers across Sindh staged protest against the government after their demands were not met.
4900 polio vaccinators were dismissed from 89 Union Councils in Karachi during the lockdown. The dismissal led the Sindh polio programme’s community-based vaccinators (CBVs) stage a protest outside the Karachi Press Club on Monday.
The CBVs claimed that they were appointed by the government in 2017 to support the polio vaccination drives at a salary of Rs17,500 a month, but they were suddenly removed from their jobs during the lockdown. They demanded that Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho reinstate them immediately.
