Kathmandu, Dec 18: Ministry of Health and Population has issued a circular to provide minimum wages and benefits to nursing and health workers
Issuing a circular, chief of the
Quality Measurement and Regulation Division of the Ministry, Dr Raj Kumar
Pandey has issued a circular to the government hospitals, medical colleges and
all community private hospitals to provide minimum nursing facilities.
Division Chief Dr Pandey said that
the circular was issued after receiving complaints from the Ministry regarding
the benefits and facilities of nursing in particular.
Likewise, the ministry has also
directed to make arrangement of additional allowance for works beyond the
stipulated time, he added.
Hospitals have also been directed
to appoint human resource on contract (appointment agreement), not to mobilize
human resource on wage basis and not keeping the original educational certificate
of the human resource at the office.
Similarly, a letter of experience
should be provided after completing the work and the remuneration of nursing
and other health workers should be provided only through the banking system. (RSS)