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The Odisha Government on Friday announced that all doctors belonging to various cadres, dental surgeons, PG doctors, post PG doctors, interns and final year students will be temporarily brought under state pool for deployment in COVID care centres.In an order, the Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department, said Meanwhile, the state government asked district authorities to increase the frequency of refilling of Oxygen cylinders in all health institution due to increasing requirement of oxygen for treatment of COVID patients amid rising cases in the state, as per an official statement. Odisha reported 12,238 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the cumulative case tally to 5,12,400, the state government informed on Friday.
ANI | Updated: May 08, 2021 05:56 IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], May 8 (ANI): The Odisha Government on Friday announced that all doctors belonging to various cadres, dental surgeons, PG doctors, post PG doctors, interns and final year students will be temporarily brought under state pool for deployment in COVID care centres.
In an order, the Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department, said: In view of recent surge in COVID-19 cases and for its smooth management, all the Doctors belonging to OHMS cadre, OMES cadre, AYUSH, Dental Surgeons, all PG Doctors, Post PG Doctors, Interns, all final year students along with Nursing and Paramedical staffs are temporarily brought under the State Pool for their deployment as per need to different Institutions for effective management of COVID-19 pandemic.
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Odisha Health and Family Welfare Minister N K Das said that the state is facing shortage due to ‘extremely low and erratic supply of Covishield vaccines’.
Odisha demanded immediate supply of Covishield to admoinister second dose to people above 45 years and above.
Das stated that Odisha has received 53,32,870 doses of Covishield vaccine so far while the balance stock available in the pipeline is 1.06 lakh.
New Delhi: The Odisha government on Friday (Friday 30) appealed to the Centre to provide at least 25 lakh doses of Serum Institute of India (SII)’s Covishield in a single lot.
To ensure smooth and regular vaccine rollout, Odisha urged the Centre to immediately deliver at least 25 lakh doses of Covishield in a single lot so that the state can administer second doses of COVID-19 vaccine to people aged 45 years and above.