A group of 40 contract hospital cleaners assigned to work at Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta, Ipoh, today held a picket outside the psychiatric facility with several demands, including an equal RM30 salary increase.

National Union of Workers in Hospitals Support and Allied Services executive secretary M Sarasvathy said the problems started after the cleaning contract for government hospitals in Perak, Penang, Kedah and Perlis were taken over by Edgenta UEMS - a subsidiary of government-linked corporation UEM Edgenta - on Jan 1 last year...