Kathmandu, June 7 -- Health workers deployed on the frontline in the battle against Covid-19 haven't received their allowances, even four months after the government announced that extra pay for them.

Health workers, who have been working on the frontline facing a host of of challenges, including discrimination and stigma, were supposed to receive allowances equivalent to their salaries, as per an announcement by the Ministry of Health and Population. The government's failure to pay health workers, some of whom have even contracted the disease, their allowances adds more stress, they say.

"We haven't received the allowances the government promised us," Shankhar Pandey, out-patient department in-charge at Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious...