Nurses hired for Covid-19 patients not paid salary for three months.

HYDERABAD -- Scores of contractual nurses, who had been specially hired to take care of Covid-19 patients at isolation centres, held a demonstration outside local press club on Monday, demanding the government pay them three-month salaries and regularise their jobs.

The protesters' leaders Jehanzeb Ali Khan, Azad Hussain, Ms Sonia, Ms Sanam and others, who had organised the protest under the aegis of Covid Hired Nurses Forum, warned that they would not accept another contract of 89 days before the provincial government released them salary of the first contract and regularised their services.

'The nurses, who were hired were among the 2,386, who had qualified test conducted by Sindh Public Service Commission last year and were immediately offered jobs on the basis of their qualification and experience for 89 days starting from March 23 till June 22 when the pandemic broke out in Sindh,' said Mohammad Afaq, the forum's vice president.

He said that nurses who had been taking care of patients of the contagious viral disease in hospitals and risking their lives were deprived of salaries. They were to receive Rs60,000 a month for a basic pay scale of 16 but they had not been...