India is hiring nurses on monthly contracts to fight Covid-19. The jobs have few takers.
Even during a pandemic, governments are unwilling to offer decent jobs to qualified nurses, resulting in exhaustion for those working on the frontlines. 2 hours ago A medical worker takes care of a Covid-19 patient in the ICU of the Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi, | Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
Sharad Kendre graduated from a nursing college in Maharashtra’s Latur district eight years ago. But he is still waiting for an opportunity to use his skills, even as the coronavirus pandemic strains the state’s public health systems and forces health workers employed in hospitals to work long hours without a break.
‘Rising patient load threatens to breach State’s health system’
The State is going through an extremely dangerous situation involving COVID-19, wherein disease transmission continues to be intense and the rising patient load is threatening to breach the State’s health system capacity, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said.
Addressing the media here on Wednesday, he said as of now, the situation did not warrant any panic as the health system had enhanced its surge capacity in the best way possible to manage increasing hospital admissions.
However, the situation would not remain the same and if the surge in new cases did not come down immediately soon, no facility created by the State would be enough to contain the burgeoning numbers, Mr. Vijayan said.
By: Times News Service
Muscat: The Director of the Department of Diseases Surveillance and Control at the Directorate General of Health Services in Muscat Governorate has urged people not to circulate rumours and unauthorized news about vaccines.
The Directorate General of Health Services in the Governorate of Muscat is making continuous efforts to complete the vaccination operations and take vaccines against Corona, at a time it seeks to strike a balance with the primary health services it provides and to enhance awareness of the importance of social distancing and wearing masks to prevent and limit the spread of the epidemic.
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JAMMU, May 5: With alarming surge in COVID cases in the UT for last three days the number of beds meant for such patients in the Hospitals across the J&K has have declared.
As per reports, out of 1700 beds which were available in SKIMS Srinagar, different medical colleges of the UT as well as private hospitals, district and sub district hospitals on May 2 has now declined to 177 by this evening due to the alarming surge in the number of COVID patients.
The official data revealed that out of 177 beds, 97 are vacant in the Medical Colleges and other hospitals of Jammu region while 80 are available in different Medical Colleges as well as other hospitals of Kashmir valley.
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Bangladesh Extends Lockdown Till May 16 Fearing Second Wave Of COVID-19
Bangladesh on May 4 extended the country’s ongoing lockdown till May 16, a move that comes as the Sheikh Hasina administration steps up to quash the pandemic
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Bangladesh extended the country’s ongoing lockdown till May 16, a move that comes as the Sheikh Hasina administration steps up to battle the ongoing Coronavirus situation. In recent weeks, Bangladesh has witnessed a sharp uptick in the COVID caseload reporting 1739 new cases and 65 death in the last 24 hours. There is no room for complacency.the bad situation can return anytime coinciding with the Eid festival later this month, Directorate of Health Services (DGHS) spokesman Dr Nazmul Islam told the media.