Ensure salaries of COVID duty doctors, health workers released on time: Centre directs all states, UTs
"Pursuant to the order of the Supreme Court, it is directed that the states and Union Territories should ensure that the salaries of doctors and healthcare workers engaged in Covid-19 related duties are released on time," Sudan said.;
New Delhi: The Central Government has directed all the states and Union Territories (UTs) to ensure that salaries of doctors and healthcare workers engaged in Covid-19 related duties are released on time.
The development comes a day after the Supreme Court asked the Centre to issue directions to the states for timely payment of salaries and providing necessary quarantine facilities to doctors and healthcare workers.
The Secretary at the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Preeti Sudan, has asked the chief secretaries of the states and UTs to ensure strict compliance of the order by all the concerned agencies.
"Pursuant to the order of the Supreme Court, it is directed that the states and Union Territories should ensure that the salaries of doctors and healthcare workers engaged in Covid-19 related duties are released on time," Sudan said.
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