They will be diverted to government medical colleges to attend to COVID-19 patients
Medical officers from Amma Mini-Clinics will be diverted to government medical colleges to attend to COVID-19 patients.
The decision follows a surge in infections in the State in the second wave of COVID-19.
The State launched 2,000 Amma Mini-Clinics in January and 1,645 doctors were recruited to run them.
The Deputy Directors of Health Services, under whose purview the mini-clinics fall, have been instructed to divert medical officers, on a need basis, as per requests from the Deans of the medical colleges or Joint Directors of Health Services to institutions that come under the Directorate of Medical Services.