LHWs protest ‘insulting’ remarks

Published July 8, 2008

DERA GHAZI KHAN, July 7: Lady health workers staged a protest demonstration here on Monday against a citizen who not only refused to administer polio drops to his children but also disgraced a couple of LHWs.

Reports said LHW Kalsoom and her colleague Nasreen Akhtar were on anti-polio vaccination campaign in Block 10 of the city .When they tried to administer polio drops to the children of Noorullah, he humiliated the lady health workers by saying that they were not good women and hurled life threat.

After their demonstration on Monday, the protesters met district police officer Maqsoodul Hasan who directed the B-division police to register a case against the accused.