Dhaka, May 8 -- 19 Emergency Response and Pandemic Preparedness (ERPP) Project staff have demanded their job be made permanent and early payment of their dues.

They made the demand at a press conference organised at the National Press Club on Thursday.

The speakers said that 1,004 people working under the Covid-19 ERPP Project to control the coronavirus are living a subhuman life as they have not received their salaries for the past 4 months.

On April 28, the Health Services Division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued a letter to the Directorate General of Health Services to send the attendance sheets of those working from January 1 to March 30 through the heads of their respective institutions in order to pay the sala...