How Karachi's sanitary workers risk their lives to survive

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In Pakistan, many Christian sanitation workers clean sewers, often without safety kits. Marginalized by caste and religion in a Muslim-majority nation, they risk their lives daily amid scant options for work.

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00:00I'm working on this, it's so small that it doesn't come out.

00:28Sometimes there is a strange thing, sometimes there is a strange thing.

00:33There is no medical or medical thing.

00:38We are just working towards the requirements.

00:48We have a simple, simple and simple.

00:51There is a little bit of hair.

00:53There is a little bit of hair.

00:54There is a little bit of hair.

00:56My family is disturbed by my wife, my mother, my little sister, my brother.

01:16They are all in the house.

01:18We don't get so much from here as we go to the house.

01:26Most of them are Hepatitis, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis E and B and C also.

01:35After that skin fungal infection and then SKBs and then HIV.

01:40So among infections these are the following infections.

01:43These are the major cause of all the infections in the sanitary worker.

01:47At the end the psychosocial stressor because society still they are not able to accommodate themselves

01:54these sanitary workers in our, you know, among the society.

01:59So these are the few things and the infection, the musculoskeletal pains

02:04and these are the basic cause so that they lead to death to the sanitary worker.

02:09So this is ended up being busy but it seems even bigger than some Toni.

02:12But it's been a very serious work.

02:14Its been about three things, cost tenha been needed truly to experience a year for society.

02:17Some people used to experience something like thisor of mag dream,

02:23so there was only one injury in a mental health in the name of Dir Excel.

02:28They hadn't given us an RPM within their way or not to

02:33and that's why they broke.

02:42The government or municipalities are insured.

02:45But unfortunately, the staff doesn't do any complaints

02:48or the rules doesn't do any of it.

02:50So, some things may be highlighted.

02:53And the government is trying to make sure

02:55that according to their duty,

02:57where they are in the shift,

02:58they are doing any complaints.

03:03What is yourвод or a necessity?

03:09I use your мужчines to live in the water.

03:11The feeling ofasone is how small it can be.

03:16But they have to go to parks and establish them.

03:19They can do to save money,

03:22getting cake in for example,

03:24and they continue to spend some time here.

03:27They don't need to enjoy money.

03:29Muslims

03:53Muslims

03:55Muslims

03:57that you have to do a 5-6 hours of prayer,

03:59then you have to do a 5-6 hours of prayer,

04:01and if you have to do a 5-6 hours of prayer,

04:03if you have to do a 5-6 hours of prayer,

04:05then you don't have to do a 5-6 hours of prayer.

04:07This is an exam for the Muslims,

04:09that we have to do a lot of trouble,

04:11if there is no job,

04:13it doesn't happen,

04:15that Muslims do this work.

04:27The Muslims do this work.

04:31The Muslims do this work.

04:33We work on the Muslims trade.

04:35The Muslims keep in mind.

04:37This is also quite a long time when the Muslims do this work.

04:39We do the Muslims.

04:41They have to do the Muslims.

04:43We are not a person.

04:45We are not a person.

04:47People are trying to keep their mind back.

04:51And people do the homework at this point.

04:53They are listening to the Muslims.

04:55We are not a person.

04:57We do this work, we do this work, we do this work, we do this work, we do this work, we do this work.

05:04But what do we do? We have to do this work in our life.

05:08In the next day, we have to do this work.

05:14Our struggle is to cross our life and to have a better future our children.

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