The government is planning to classify those injured during the Gen Z Uprising and provide monthly treatment expenses.
The Ministry of Health and Population has come up with a plan to categorize the survivors of the September protests and arrange monthly treatment expenses to the needy, shared Chief of Health Emergency Operation Centre at the Ministry, Dr Prakash Budhathoki.
"We have classified the Gen Z movement injured based on the admission at hospitals during the last September 8-9", he said, adding, "in accordance with this, the Ministry of Home Affairs has provided monthly financial aid for the treatment of the injured".
According to him, the government has decided to provide the caretakers of those critically injured and injured during the Gen Z protests with nine thousand each, the seriously injured with a monthly Rs. 9,000, and the moderately injured with a monthly Rs. 4,000.
It has been clarified that no amount would be provided to the normally injured.
Similarly, he stated that a lump sum of Rs 35,000 was provided to all the injured of the Gen Z Uprising.
A total of 539 injured persons have been classified into four different categories.
The classification of those injured was done based on the identity cards provided by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
According to him, 29 were categorized as very critically injured, 130 critically injured, 85 moderately injured, and 295 normally injured.