LAHORE, Jan 13: The Muttahida Labour Federation has demanded that the Punjab Social Security Employees Institution commissioner be held accountable for “not ensuring provision of health care to workers despite giving the health management unit Rs900 million for the purpose”.

At a news conference at the Lahore Press Club here on Sunday, the federation’s chairman Muhammad Yaqoob, organiser Muhammad Akbar, provincial president Altaf Baloch and secretary-general Muhammad Hanif Ramay said workers and their families were not being provided proper health care in Manga, Muzaffargarh and Sheikhupura, where the commissioner had paid the health management unit Rs450 million for the purpose. They said the commissioner was again preparing to transfer an equal amount to the health unit for the purpose. They said workers and their families were being provided substandard medicines and heart patients were being told to wait for treatment for months.