If a health worker in a govt hospital or a state govt employee dies while fighting the pandemic, then his or her family will continue to get full salary till the deceased’s actual retirement age, says Patnaik NEW DELHI : All health workers including doctors who will die while fighting covid-19 will be given “martyrs" status and provide them state funeral, Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik announced Tuesday.
He also said that their families will get a compensation of Rs5 mn each. If a health worker in a government hospital or a state government employee dies while fighting the pandemic, then his or her family will continue to get full salary till the deceased’s actual retirement age, Patnaik said in a video message to the people of the