After assurance from the officials of the directorate general of health services about better payment, some 26,000 health assistants will join work from today. Due to their work abstention since November 26, the measles-rubella vaccination campaign for children scheduled for December 6 had to be pushed to December 12. Even after that "no assistant under the banner of Bangladesh Health Assistant Association (BHAA) joined the ongoing measles-rubella vaccination campaign" across the country. "We had a meeting with honourable director general of the DGHS. He assured us that our demand will be met. So, we will join work from tomorrow [today]. After the measles-rubella campaign, however, we will go on strike again if our demand is not met," Sheikh Rabiul Alam, president of BHAA told The Daily Star yesterday.