Small victories for contract doctors but proper resolution still needed

Contract doctors at public hospitals who have been struggling to get better treatment and career prospects scored a couple of small victories after the government made some concessions.

Hartal Doktor Kontrak, the official Facebook page of a movement which had been pressuring the government to address the plight of contract doctors, said it had been informed that some junior doctors from the May 2017 intake are finally being offered permanent positions.

Last week, the Health Ministry also began offering junior doctors from the December 2016 intake a one-off one-year contract extension so that...