KARAK: The lady health workers (LHWs) have threatened to boycott anti-polio and other immunisation campaigns if government doesn’t issue a notification about regularisation of their service within four days.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Lady Health Workers Association district president Kulsoom Sultana, vice president Zakia Minhas, general secretary Iftikhar Bano and senior vice president Rukhsana Begum set a four-day deadline to the government for regularisation of their services.

They said that government should issue a notification to each LHW in the district about regularisation of her service till September 10. They threatened to boycott anti-polio and other immunisation campaigns in the district if the notification was not issued till expiry of the deadline.

They said that instead of giving some relief to the lady health workers, the government terminated the services of provincial president of their association and district president of Charsadda owing to their struggle for the rights of the workers.

The LHWs leaders vowed to remain united for getting their rights. They said that illegal actions were totally unacceptable to them. Such actions could not stop them from their struggle, they added.

They said that the terminated workers should be reinstated forthwith and legal action should be taken against those officers, who were involved in taking illegal action against the workers.

They demanded of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led provincial government to accept genuine demands of the lady health workers. They said that they would stage a sit-in in Peshawar after expiry of the deadline to press the government for acceptance of their demands.

Published in Dawn, September 7th, 2014