Daily wagers face miseries

SUKKUR: The partial lockdown for three days in Sukkur, Khairpur, Larkana and other cities multiplied the miseries of people, including the daily wagers and labourers. The people said they were not against the lockdown but would like to ask Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah who would provide goods to their kids and families. Irshad Ali, a labourer, said he has nine dependents and provision of essential items depended on his daily earning of Rs400 to 500 but for the last three days, he was told to stay at home, having no stock of edible items.

The labourer said the Sindh government should provide ration for 15 days to the poor, especially the daily wagers to allow them to survive in the prevailing situation. He said the district administration did not fulfill its pledge to provide food to the families of the coronavirus patients, who were locked down in the quarantine centre. Manzoor Ali Ujjan, a daily wages labourer, said his child got sick and when he brought his child to Khairpur Medical College Civil Hospital, he found the OPDs were shut down. He said the prices of the utility items was increased artificially by shopkeepers on the plea of shutdown of the wholesale markets.