They have been working relentlessly since the pandemic began in March 2020
Medical students pursuing their post-graduation at Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI) have alleged that they are yet to get their COVID-19 risk allowance even though they have been working relentlessly since the pandemic began in March 2020.
The Karnataka Association of Resident Doctors (KARD) has alleged that 250 doctors have been tested positive for COVID-19, including post-graduates, interns and faculty posted at various State-run hospitals in Bengaluru and COVID-19 Care Centres (CCCs).
Besides State-run hospitals and CCCs, post-graduates are posted in places where health screening is done, such as airports. They are given a monthly stipend of ₹40,000 (first year), ₹45,000 (second year) and ₹50,000 (third year).
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Covaxin or Covishield? A dilemma for India s healthcare workers
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Overcoming vaccine hesitancy the key to a successful Covid-19 inoculation drive
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A week into its Covid-19 vaccination drive, India needs to overcome its vaccine hesitancy that is hobbling efforts.
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The bigger challenge to tackle hesitancy, though, might well be when the vaccine drive is opened to those beyond frontline workers.
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Please do come. There is no queue, it won’t take long,” Akash Kumar Jha says persuasively, as he speaks on the phone to a doctor at New Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. It’s one of the many calls the hospital’s first officer for vaccination is making on Thursday morning to coax colleagues into coming in and rolling up their sleeves for a shot of Covaxin, one of the two vaccines India has approved to immunise the country against Covid-19. Jha has good reason to be as convincing as possible it had been five days since India launched its vaccine drive but the numbers at RML Hospital were not encourag
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BENGALURU: Some doctors are apprehensive of going in for Covaxin and they have demanded that the government give them the option to take Covishield.While Covishield is being distributed in 237 centres across districts, Covaxin is being given only in six centres in six districts. These doctors working in the six medical colleges, who have no option but to take Covaxin, have approached their respective district health centres, expressing their fears and citing safety concerns.
Ballari, Hassan, Chikkamagaluru, Shivamogga, Chamarajanagar and Davangere are the six districts where Covaxin is given in the government medical colleges - Shivamogga Institute Of Medical Sciences (SIMS), Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences (HIMS), Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS) and Chamarajanagar Institute of Medical Sciences (CIMS).
Updated Jan 19, 2021 | 17:05 IST
Last week, resident doctors at Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital requested the medical superintendent to vaccinate them with Covishield. Dr Dayanand Sagar, president of the Karnataka Association of Resident Doctors. | Photo Credit: ANI
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The development comes after a 43-year-old health worker in Karnataka died of a massive cardiac arrest on Monday, barely two days after he was administered a Covid-19 vaccine
The deceased, identified as Nagaraju of Ballari district, was a permanent employee of the state Health Department
Bengaluru: The distrust over the veracity of the indigenously-developed Covid-19 vaccine – Covaxin – continues to increase, especially among healthcare workers, who believe they are being used for human trials of the drug.