KATHMANDU, May 2: Minister for Health and Population Pradeep Paudel has warned that private medical colleges failing to provide residential doctors with allowances equivalent to those of the government's eighth-level employees may lose their affiliation.
Speaking at a press conference on Friday, organized by the Ministry in collaboration with the Nepal Medical Association to address doctors' demands, Minister Paudel issued the warning.
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He confirmed that the Medical Education Commission's meeting on February 7 had decided to provide residential doctors with subsistence allowances equivalent to the eighth-level employees of the Health Ministry and emphasized that this decision must be enforced.
