Patna Municipal Strike Disrupts Sanitation Services

In Patna, a city in India, workers who clean the streets and pick up garbage started a strike on July 30.

Because of the strike, trash stopped being collected and streets were not cleaned.

This caused piles of garbage on roads, which can attract mosquitoes and flies.

Those insects can spread diseases like dengue and malaria.

The workers want better jobs, no outsourcing, and the same benefits as other city workers.

The city officials have talked with the government, but no agreement has been reached yet.