The Interior Ministry is reviewing allowances disbursed to health workers and officials battling Covid-19 following complaints that some of them did not receive the payments.
A ministry sosurce said staff had ordered provincial governors nationwide to make sure the more-than 100,000 frontline health workers and officials were given allowances owed to them, after complaints that some were missing out.
They include doctors and nurses and public health personnel attached to the provincial, district and local administrative offices.
The interior permanent secretary’s office has issued forms to the local administrative organisations, which must specify who has received the allowance payments.
According to the office’s instruction, the forms must be filled out and returned to the ministry by Jan 21, the source said.
The allowance payments were being checked after the…
