Rautahat Dr. Arjun Jaiswal passed the MBBS exam last year. He graduated in medicine from Chitwan Medical College on a government scholarship and has been working on a scholarship contract at Dullu Hospital in Dailekh since November last year.

"Karnali was chosen to gain new experience and professional skills, now they have to make ends meet because they don't get regular salary," he said, "They even called the minister for salary, but it was ignored." Janak Gautam has been working since November 24. He has passed MBBS from National Medical College, Birgunj.

``I came here with the feeling of serving Karnali, the incentive allowance implemented by the state government also attracted me to come here,'' he said, ``but at the beginning of my career, I have to work without pay for so long.'' 

Doctors and health workers working on scholarship contracts in various districts of Karnali Province have not received their salary since last December . Because of this, Dr. working in the District Health Service Office Rukum West had to be wasted. Vishal Adhikari said.

``We have not received salary even after five months of appointment,'' he said, ``It was as if we came to Karnali to serve for free, we have loans everywhere, how many days will we earn a living by scraping with friends?'' It has become difficult to make a living because the salary is not sent,' Dr. working at Tripurakot Primary Health Center located in Tripurasundari Municipality-1 of Dolpa. Tulsi Shah said, "Federal government has been repeatedly brought to the attention, state government officials are also avoiding saying that there is no money, in such a situation, how can we serve the patients?" "If the state and the union had given us the financial authority to appoint them, we could have paid them salaries. There is also a problem when Khatanpatan is with us and the salaries are from elsewhere," he said. 11, 9 from Calikot, 8/8 from Dailekh and Jajarkot, 7/7 doctors and health workers working in Humla and Salyan have not received their salary since November. Statistics Officer of the Ministry, Laxman Kandel said that 7 in Mugu, 5 in Dolpa, 2/2 doctors and health workers working in Surkhet, Directorate of Health Services and Ministry of Social Development have been without salary for 5 months. 

According to him, 121 doctors and health workers are working on scholarship contracts across the province. He informed that they have been assigned to different hospitals in the 7th, 8th and 9th levels. In Karnali, along with doctors, health workers who have passed graduation and post graduation in BPH and nursing are working . The government has made a rule that doctors and health workers who have studied on scholarship must serve in government hospitals for at least 2 years . 

 In Rukum West, 12 people including medical officers, dental officers and public health officers have drawn the attention of the federal government with an ultimatum till Wednesday saying that they have not received their salaries from November to March. Dr. has warned to stop all services except emergency if the salary is not received within a week. Pradeep Shrestha said. "We have to work day and night to treat patients, but the government is ignoring our problems," he said, "till now, we are running the same day-to-day, how can we always work like this?" According to which, eighth level doctors get 50% incentive allowance in Surkhet, 80% in Dailekh, Jajarkot, Rukum West and Salyan, 90% in Kalikot and Jumla and 100% of basic salary in Humla, Dolpa and Mugu.