Health workers deployed at Covid-19 front line deprived of risk allowance in Syangja

Most local units have not disbursed risk allowance to its health workers while some haven’t even paid their full salary.

Hum Bahadur Rana has been working in the frontline as a lab technician in Kaligandaki Rural Municipality, Syangja, since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. As per an announcement made by the Ministry of Health and Population, health workers deployed in the frontline are to get a risk allowance equivalent to their salary. However, he has not received any allowance so far.