KARACHI, Feb 21: The Sindh Employee’s Social Security Institution has decided to move international donors to cooperate in providing protection against hepatitis to workers and their families in Sindh.

At a meeting of the senior medial officer and doctors employed by SESSI, Chairman of the institution, Hashim Raza Zaidi, which provides medical care and cash benefits to secured workers of factories and industries and their dependents it was noted that hepatitis cases among workers was on increase.

The meeting called for taking precautionary and preventive measures to stop further spread of hepatitis.

The Sessi chairman asked the officials to organise awareness programmes on hepatitis and ensure improved medical care and medicines to secured workers and their dependents, who number around 2.2 million across Sindh.

It was also decided in the meeting that international donors and relevant agencies should also be requested for hepatitis vaccinations in the case of secured workers and their dependents, it was said officially.