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Nepali Nurses Protest Demanding Fair Pay And Benefits

Nepali nurses working at a government hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, on October 31, 2025, take part in a protest expressing solidarity with those demanding fair pay and benefits. In a phased manner, nurses from hospitals across the Himalayan nation stage protests demanding assurance of minimum salary, allowances, and benefits. Nurses working in government hospitals now come forward expressing solidarity with those demanding pay, allowances, and benefits equal to government standards. A 15-point demand is put forward by the Nursing Association. Their demands include implementing the Ministry of Health and Population's directive dated October 10, 2025, ensuring that the minimum remuneration of health workers is not lower than that of government employees, providing allowances for additional work, ending daily-wage employment, and paying salaries and allowances through the banking system. The protesting nurses also demand recognition of skilled nursing professionals, who have long been treated as laborers, to be formally recognized and managed under the Health Act. (Photo by Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto)

Photo ID	#12929559
Date Taken	31 October 2025
Location	N/A
Photographer	Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto
Category	Human Interest
Copyright	© 2026 NurPhoto - Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto

Nepali nurses government hospital Kathmandu protest solidarity fair pay benefits minimum salary allowances Himalayan Nation government standards Nursing Association 15-point demand Ministry of Health and Population directive remuneration health workers government employees additional work daily-wage employment banking system salaries skilled nursing professionals Health Act recognition management Subaas Shrestha NurPhoto October 31 2025 phased protest assurance demands health sector laborers.