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As part of a drastic approach to dealing with the spread of the new coronavirus, Azra Pechuho, Pakistan’s Minister of Health in the southern province of Sindh, has told her health workers ‘NO JAB, NO JOB’.
This, according to him, is meant to convince healthcare workers to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or risk unemployment.
This is due to the steady increase in daily new infections in the country amid a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
Islamabad, March 26 (dpa / GNA) – A Pakistani minister has warned health workers to get vaccinated against
Covid-19 or risk of unemployment, as the country witnesses a steady increase in new infections daily amid a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
“You can lose [your] I work if you don’t get vaccinated, ”Azra Pechuho, Minister of Health for the southern province of Sindh said in a video message Thursday.
At least 33,356 health workers out of 142,315 registered in the province have not received to be vaccinated, he said.
Pakistan is using the Sinopharm vaccine, a gift from China. But its people have given a lukewarm response to the vaccination campaign.
A survey conducted at the beginning of the year revealed that around half of citizens are skeptical of vaccines and would not dare to inject them.
“Health workers were reluctant due to doubts created by the government’s decision not to vaccinate people over 60 years of age in the early days,” Qaiser Sajjad, secretary general of the Pakistan Medical Association, told dpa. on Friday.
But he said the government now considers the vaccine to be safe and is asking all frontline citizens and healthcare workers to get vaccinated.
The province of Sindh has been hard hit by Covid-19, reporting more than 264,000 cases of coronavirus, the highest in the country.
On Friday, the Health Ministry reported 4,368 new infections and 63 related deaths. Pakistan has so far recorded 645,356 cases and 14,091 deaths in total.
— GNA
