SHANGLA:TheLadyHealthWorkers Association, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Thursday warned that if its members weren`t paid salary pending for the last four months, they would boycott duties, including those for the ongoing vaccination campaign, after March 1.

Information secretary of the association Shahid Khan told reporters in Bisham area here that their provincial cabinet had decided that they would boycott duty if the pending salaries and fuel costs weren`t paid after March 1.

He said the workers and their families were troubled by the prolonged nonpayment of salary.`Our LHWs endanger their lives and brave biting cold to perform the assigned tasks in difficult terrains but the government has withheld salary payment to us for the last four months,` he said.

Mr Khan said the escalating prices of essential goods and energy had hit the entire health community, which was struggling to make ends meet.

He said the LHWs had decided to boycott their respective duties from March 1 onward for being subjected to a financial disaster by the government and those duties included vaccination against polio and other diseases.

The association leader said the provin-cial government, especially the health department, would be responsible for the boycott of duties by lady health workers.Correspondent