KARACHI, July 30: The vaccination staff associated with the Orangi Town dispensaries have complained of nonpayment of their salaries for the last nine months, and threatened to stage a protest demonstration in front of the office of the EDO health in the first week of August if the problem was not resolved.

Talking to this reporter at the Basic Health Unit, Baloch Goth, Muhammad Amin and Junaid Ahmad said that they had been performing their duties with utmost devotion and honesty but were not being paid salaries for the reasons best known to the authorities concerned.

They said that many of their other colleagues were also facing the same problem and they were even ready to quit the job because they had no other livelihood.

They maintained that they had been appointed on a fixed salary of Rs3,000 per month which was too meager as against the skyrocketing prices of the items of daily use. Even this small remuneration was not being paid for many months, they regretted.

Meanwhile, the senior staff at the dispensaries also demanded provision of motorbikes as was being done in the case of other employees. They alleged this facility was being provided only to the blue-eyed people instead of merit and seniority basis.