A teachers’ group on Friday asked the government to provide free medical assistance to public school teachers so that they would not sink deeper into debt.

One of the principal factors why teachers borrow money, according to the Teachers’ Dignity Coalition (TDC), is that the government does not have medical assistance for them despite the mandate of a law.

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