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They will get increased salaries for March already.
Ukraine's Health Ministry has announced that it has tripled salaries for doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers on the coronavirus frontlines.
Medical workers who have been treating patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 will receive additional pay for March in the amount of three official salaries, it said on Facebook.
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The order, signed by newly appointed Health Minister Maksym Stepanov, lists medical workers who will have a pay rise starting from March: emergency medical technicians, pulmonologists, infectious diseases specialists, pathologists, epidemiologists, laboratory assistants, anesthetists, radiologists, bacteriologists, virologists, general practitioners, pediatricians, nurses, drivers, and other healthcare workers directly involved in the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
It says that the increased salaries will be paid during the implementation of measures aimed at preventing the outbreak and spread of COVID-19, as well as eliminating its epidemics and pandemics.