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MBBS college students on COVID responsibility in Himachal to obtain Rs 3,000 monthly

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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Tuesday introduced that docs and para-medical workers working at COVID hospitals would obtain monetary incentive until June this yr.
The fourth and fifth yr MBBS college students, contractual docs and junior/senior residents can be supplied an incentive of Rs 3,000 monthly whereas nursing college students, General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) third yr college students and contractual lab workers can be supplied an incentive of Rs 1,500 monthly, he mentioned.
The announcement was made throughout a video assembly with officers of Kangra, convened in view of sharp surge in circumstances of this pandemic within the district.
Later within the day, the CM visited Radhaswami Satsang Vyas at Paraur within the district and directed officers to create a further mattress capability of 250 inside subsequent 10 days that may regularly improve to about 1,000 beds.
Out of the three,59,489 samples been collected in Kangra to this point, 19,570 have examined optimistic, Kangra Deputy Commissioner Rakesh Prajapati mentioned.
There had been 5,384 lively circumstances within the district and the positivity charge was 5.44 % whereas restoration charge was 70.34 %, he mentioned.
Prajapati additional mentioned the vaccination drive was going easily and until date, 3,82,851 doses of vaccine had been administered to frontline staff, corona warriors and folks above the age of 45.

The CM has directed officers to make sure easy provide of oxygen and to reinforce the supply of ICU beds in Kangra.
He mentioned non-public laboratories should be empanelled and requisitioned so extra RT-PCR checks had been carried out and outcomes had been supplied on the earliest.
He additionally mentioned {that a} foolproof mechanism should be advanced for transportation of sufferers to the hospitals in addition to making sufficient preparations to drop them dwelling after therapy.
The central authorities has sanctioned six PSA oxygen crops for the state, which might be arrange at civil hospital, Palampur; zonal hospital, Mandi; civil hospital, Rohru and civil hospital, Khaneri; Y.S Parmar authorities medical faculty and hospital, Nahan; and regional hospital, Solan, the CM famous.

He mentioned this is able to guarantee sufficient oxygen provide to about 1,400 beds in these well being establishments.
Apart from 1,000 mattress capability to be created at Paraur, efforts had been on to create mattress capability of 200 at Radha Swami Satsang Vyas advanced in Mandi and 300 beds at new OPD block of IGMCH in Simla.
In addition, the house has additionally been recognized at Baddi-Barotiwala space for creating a further 500 mattress capability for COVID sufferers.