Covid-19 frontliners rally outside Kyrgyz Health Ministry with demand to pay compensations

AKIPRESS.COM - Medical workers of the National Hospital rallied outside the Ministry of Health on December 15 with the demand to pay compensations for work in COVID-19 red zone.
Around 15 medical workers came for the action after they had not received compensations for November.
The Compulsory Health Insurance Fund said it transferred 18,936,200 soms in compensations to 554 medical workers of the National Hospital.
These medical workers worked in COVID-19 red zones, including 112 doctors (5.333 million soms), 208 nurses (8.122 million soms), 142 junior medical workers (5.287 million soms), 92 other workers (193,180 soms).
The government members were defending the draft budget, the budgets of the Social Fund and the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund for the last 3 weeks, Deputy Prime Minister Elvira Surabaldieva said.
"While these documents were considered in Parliament, we made changes in the public budget. This is why delays in payment of compensations occurred. Medical workers rallied yesterday... They just did not make it to transfer funds for compensations in time," the Deputy Prime Minister said.
The payment of compensations may be delayed for some technical reasons only, the Deputy PM added. "As far as I know, the funds were transferred yesterday to the National Hospital," she said.