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COVID: Jharkhand CM announces one-month additional pay for frontline warriors Jharkhand
Image credit: Hemanth Soren Facebook

COVID: Jharkhand CM announces one-month additional pay for frontline warriors

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | 26 Apr 2021, 11:36 pm

Ranchi/UNI: The Jharkhand State Government has announced one month of additional pay for the doctors and healthcare staff who are at the forefront of the battle against Coronavirus.

Chief Minister Hemant Soren on his Facebook page made an announcement in this regard and said that in these adverse circumstances, the Covid warriors are fighting day and night therefore the state government has decided that healthcare staff and doctors who are involved in these works will be provided one month of their pay/honorarium as an incentive.

The Chief Minister also thanked the frontline warriors for their vital role in battling covid.

The step of the government is aimed at boosting the morale of the doctors, paramedics and nurses who are the frontline warriors.

In the line of duty, many of them have themselves got infected by the disease while few others have ended up losing their lives.