The minister said in principle, the government agreed to the proposal of the health workers and to put up the necessary machinery in motion for its actualisation.
“Nobody in government is opposed to the proposal. It is a proposal that is realistic. It is a proposal that we all agreed to last year when COVID-19 erupted. Remember that we were even calling back people who are retired. We delayed retirement age by six months for health workers so that we can fight COVID-19 pandemic.
“We have of course done a lot of stock up. We have rehabilitated a lot of health facilities and they are now in top form. We have molecular laboratories all over the place. Every state has one. We have isolation centres, Intensive Care Units, oxygen plants all over the place and good storage facilities for drugs and vaccines and a lot of research is going on too in the area of pharmacy and allied biochemistry.
I didn't see anything different from Lai Mohammed.