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Akash Sama­roo

Health work­ers, who Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo say will not re­ceive back­pay this month, are threat­en­ing to “down tools” and per­form on­ly the “bare min­i­mum” from the week of Christ­mas in­to the new year.

The frus­trat­ed re­gion­al health au­thor­i­ty (RHA) em­ploy­ees are al­so invit­ing Tan­coo and his staff to “come and care for the sick” at the na­tion’s hos­pi­tals dur­ing that pe­ri­od.