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Foreign medical graduates await nod for internship
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They cleared the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination held last year
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They cleared the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination held last year Around 500 candidates who have done MBBS in foreign countries are awaiting government approval to undergo internship. They cleared the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) held in December last, but have not received a call for internship so far.
The registration for the year-long Compulsory Rotational Residential Internship (CRRI) before they can graduate as doctors is a tedious process. After qualifying in the FMGE, the results of which are announced 20 days after the test, the candidate must wait for a month to receive the certificate from the National Medical Commission.
Covid second wave: Why Kerala is locking down
Covid second wave: Why Kerala is locking down | India Today Insight
The state is heading for a Covid crisis. Localised lockdowns have proved ineffective with infections raging in 12 districts
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UPDATED: May 7, 2021 11:01 IST
A policeman patrols a vacant road during extended lockdown after surge in COVID-19 cases, in Kochi, May 4 (PTI)
A day after taking charge for a second consecutive term, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced a full lockdown in the state from May 8-16 in a bid to break the Covid infection chain. He’s just won a historic battle by leading the Left Democratic Front to a second massive victory at the hustings but now faces an uphill task with more and more infected people demanding hospital care and ventilator support.
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Health workers wearing protective gear ( PPE kit ) dump waste collected from COVID-19 wards into a temporary shed at the Railway hospital, ICF in Chennai on April 15, 2021.
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Noting that the rapid surge in COVID-19 cases could cause a huge burden on the healthcare workers, the Federation of Government Doctors Association (FOGDA) has suggested an intense lockdown for 14 days starting from April 18 to slow down transmission and give a breathing space for preparedness.
In a representation to the Health Secretary, FOGDA has put forward suggestions to tackle the present crisis as the daily COVID-19 cases were steeply increasing in the State. Such a sudden surge could make it difficult for the health infrastructure, and causes a huge burden on healthcare workers who are required to be deployed to treat patients with COVID-19 as well as take effective preventive measures. Workforce has to be deployed for the vaccination
Covid-19: Tamil Nadu government deploys 130 willing doctors from districts in Chennai
Apart from that the Indian Medical Association, Tamil Nadu branch also assured that they are ready to help the government come up with the list of private doctors who are willing to work in Chennai.
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A Corporation health worker collects swab samples at a construction site at Chetpet in Chennai | Ashwin prasath
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CHENNAI: As the government doctors associations objected to the decision of diverting regular doctors from other districts to Chennai for Covid-19 duty, the Directorate of Medical Education, after looking for alternate steps so far, managed to divert around 130 doctors who expressed their willingness to work in Chennai earlier and were waiting for the posting.