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They will be deployed in govt. medical college hospitals and attached institutions for 6 months
The Directorate of Medical Education (DME) will recruit 2,100 medical officers on contract for six months for managing patients with COVID-19 in government medical college hospitals and attached institutions in the State. The doctors will be appointed on a consolidated pay of ₹60,000 a month.
The State government has sanctioned ₹75.6 crore for appointing the doctors, temporarily, to handle the COVID-19 exigency in medical college hospitals and attached institutions. The recruitment is subject to the condition that candidates be made aware that the appointment is purely temporary as per the recent direction of the Madras High Court.
34,875 persons test positive in Tamil Nadu
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May 20, 2021 01:10 IST
The State now has 2,53,576 active cases, including 48,326 in Chennai; 365 deaths push the toll to 18,734
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The State now has 2,53,576 active cases, including 48,326 in Chennai; 365 deaths push the toll to 18,734
The number of persons testing positive for COVID-19 a day surpassed 34,000 in Tamil Nadu, taking the active case-load past 2.5 lakh on Wednesday. A total of 34,875 persons tested positive and 365 died, taking the overall case tally to 16,99,225 and toll to 18,734.
The State now has 2,53,576 active cases. Of these, Chennai accounts for 48,326, followed by Coimbatore with 27,189 persons and Chengalpattu with 15,237 persons. The active cases rose to 11,126 in Madurai and 11,390 in Tiruvallur.
Indian medical staff indict Modi government, authorities for catastrophic mishandling of pandemic
India is the global epicentre of the pandemic, with a tsunami of cases and deaths sweeping across the country. On Friday, India’s Health Ministry reported a record daily increase of 414,188 cases, with deaths rising by 3,915. There have now been 21.49 million officially registered cases since the beginning of the pandemic, and 234,083 deaths. Both of these figures are widely recognised to be vast undercounts.
India’s emergence as the world’s COVID-19 epicentre accounting for more than 45 percent of all new cases worldwide in the past week is the direct product of the “profits before lives” policy enforced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. This policy has been supported by state governments throughout the country, including those led by the Congress Party and other opposition parties. Despite warnings from epidemiologist