As a response to the emerging crisis, the state government has decided to employ 4
th and 5
rd year nursing students for Covid duties with immediate effect.
Other categories listed in the notification issued by the state secretary, Amitabh Awasthi, include all contractual medical officers, junior and senior resident doctors, laboratory lab staff and General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) third-year students.
However, what has irked the medical students is the meagre remuneration of Rs 3,000 per month fixed for the contractual doctors, junior and senior resident doctors and medical students.
For other categories, the remuneration has been fixed at Rs 1,500 per month for their service in the Covid-care facilities at medical colleges and hospitals. The fund to remunerate the medical staff has been allotted out of the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) fund.
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597 The Central Government had asked the states to raise the proportion of RT-PCR tests in the overall testing up to 70 per cent, as they give more reliable results.
Subhash Rajta
Shimla, April 30
To ramp up Covid testing facilities, the state will procure more RT-PCR machines. The additional machines will help in ensuring timely reports of the samples, which are getting delayed due to a thrust on extensive testing, especially RT-PCR tests. “The state is purchasing more RT-PCR machines for the existing centres and will also provide more staff for multiple runs in these centres,” said Dr Nipun Jindal, MD, National Health Mission.