Unpaid midwifery schools’ employees protest for salaries

Unpaid employees of community midwifery schools staged a demonstration on Wednesday against non-payment of their salaries by the provincial administration of the National Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) programme.

Carrying placards and banners, the protesters staged a sit-in outside the Karachi Press Club and demanded of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah to release their pending salaries before Eidul Fitr, regularise the contract-based employees and provide due rights to the employees of midwifery schools.

The protesters maintained that they were hired after interviews and completion of other formalities but the MNCH programme authorities did not pay their salaries for a year.

“We only got salaries for a few months after our joining and now it has been a year that we are providing our services without any pay,” a protestor said.

The demonstrators demanded of the chief minister and other high-ups of the provincial health department to regularise the employees on their posts and release their pending salaries before Eidul Fitar.