Govt appeases nurses, agrees to offer civil-servant status
The Cabinet has sought to appease protesting nurses with a promise to give a civil-servant status to all nurses now working at state hospitals as employees or temporary employees within three years.
“We will gradually recruit them to civil servant positions,” Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Tuesday.
The prime minister was speaking after the Cabinet approved a plan to provide an additional 2,900 civil servant positions to nurses who are waiting for civil-servant status at state hospitals this year.
The addition is on top of 2,200 civil servant positions that the Public Health Ministry has prepared for nurses.
“I think nurses in general must be satisfied with the government response,” Thailand Nursing and Midwifery Council’s vice-president Krisada Sawaengdee said.
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