Sanitary worker appeals for job restoration

Rawalpindi: Naseem Abbas Jaffri, a former sanitary worker of the Holy Family Hospital (HFH), who is partially blind, has been seeking his reinstatement to the job. He was terminated on June 4, 2010.
Some months back, he had filed an application in the chief minister’s office for redressal of his grievance. The chief minister's office wrote to the medical superintendent (MS) of HFH on January 19, 2015, saying “the enclosed application was presented in this office by Mr Naseem Abbas, ex-sanitary worker/ward boy, Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi, which is forwarded for redressal of grievances and report to this office for perusal/orders of the chief minister within three days positively”.
The ex-sanitary worker, however, says that there was no implementation of the orders.
When this correspondent contacted HFH MS Dr Arshad Ali Sabir, he said that the case was brought before him and the chief minister's office had been seeking reply. "We have replied to the said letter." MS Sabir said that the person was a daily wage worker with the hospital and he could not be reinstated. The person can file a fresh application for the job whenever there were some vacancies with the hospital. However, he could not be adjusted in the present setup as a former worker.
"The man was dismissed from the job due to moral turpitude and we have conveyed our reply to the chief minister’s office," he said.
Jaffri, 34, with no other source of income, however, has appealed to the concerned authorities to restore his service as he has got no other source of income and being blind he could not do another job.
He is married with a child and needs money for taking care of his family, Jaffri said. If he is denied this job he has got no other option except for depending on other members of his family and burdening them. Jaffri said that his family could not provide him with resources and he has become a rolling stone.
"Crossing physical barriers, I visited the hospital officials several times after I was sacked but they kept me out of bounds." Talking about his dismissal, he said that taking advantage of his blindness people alleged many odd things against him and that’s how these became issues, he further said.
He has filed an application for restoration of his job on humanitarian grounds.
Jaffri told this correspondent that he has been working in the hospital on contractual basis and after his termination all contractual employees were regularised. Being blind he does not have many options, and if he is restored to the job, he will be obliged to the provincial government and health ministry officials.