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People wait for their turn to receive a dose of the coronavirus vaccine at the Expo Centre in Karachi in this file photo. AFP
KARACHI: The vaccination process at the Expo Centre the country’s biggest mass immunisation centre against coronavirus was suspended on Saturday after data entry operators went on strike, forcing many people to leave for home without getting vaccinated.
The staff claimed that they had not been paid their salaries for three months.
Sources said the doctors, nurses and entire staff currently working at the Expo Centre were hired on a contractual basis and getting their monthly salaries in time except the data entry operators hired through a third party.
Data entry staff up in arms over unpaid salaries
Rolls up sleeves for protest if govt tries to usurp their dues
KARACHI:
Contract-based data entry operators, working on the registration desk at the coronavirus vaccination centre of the Karachi Expo Centre, resorted to protests and stopped working as they were unpaid for three months.
The employees, carrying banners, chanted strong slogans in favour of their demands.
The protestors on Saturday said they were not being paid and more than 300 of them were performing registration duties. The demonstrators pointed out that salaries of IT staff were not paid. Our rights must be provided to us, one of them said. We were assured that the salaries will be paid to us by July 8, but it is now the 17th.
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کراچی ایکسپو سینٹر میں ویکسینیشن اتوار کے روز بھی جاری
شہرِ قائد کراچی میں واقع ایکسپو سینٹر میں ماس کورونا ویکسینیشن سینٹر اتوار کے روز بھی فعال ہے۔
کراچی کے ایکسپو سینٹر میں ماس ویکسینیشن کا عمل اتوار کے روز (آج بھی) جاری ہے، ایکسپو سینٹر میں ہفتے کے 7 دنوں میں 24 گھنٹے ویکسینیشن جاری ہے۔
شہریوں کی بڑی تعداد ایکسپو سینٹر میں کورونا وائرس کی ویکسین لگوانے آرہی ہے۔
واضح رہے کہ کورونا وائرس کی جاری تیسری لہر کے دوران پاکستان کورونا مریضوں کی تعداد کے حوالے سے مرتب کی گئی فہرست میں 29 ویں نمبر پر ہے، ملک میں کورونا سے اموات میں غیر معمولی کمی دیکھنے �