Nurses at Manipal and Gandaki Medical Colleges in Kaski are on strike, demanding a salary equivalent to the fifth grade.
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Prime Minister Sushila Karki has directed to immediately resolve the problems of the protesting nurses. The Prime Minister summoned Health Secretary Dr. Bikash Devkota and instructed him to resolve the problem.
Prime Minister Karki, who also holds the Ministry of Health, instructed to understand the issues of the nurses' agitation and take immediate steps to address them and inform about the progress.
It is not appropriate to keep skilled human resources in the country at very low wages, she said, and if their problems are not resolved, there is a risk of a large number of human resources migrating abroad.
Nurses from Manipal and Gandaki Medical Colleges in Kaski are on strike, demanding that they be paid at the fifth level as per the decision of the Ministry of Health. The ministry had decided last November that the remuneration of nurses working in all health institutions should be 34,730.
