The Odisha government has asked all doctors to write prescriptions in legible handwriting. Chief Secretary Pradeep Kumar Jena has issued the order in accordance with an instruction from the Orissa High Court. The order also applies to medico-legal reports and post-mortem reports.
Bhubaneswar: Officers of Odisha Medical Health Service (OMHS) cadre, which is for doctors posted in primary healthcare institutes to that in district .
Bhubaneswar: The health and family welfare department on Tuesday issued an order, increasing the current stipend amount given to house surgeons engage.
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BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Medical Services Association (OMSA) on Friday urged the state government to give vaccines to family members of healthcare providers, including doctors, on a priority basis.
In a letter to Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra, additional chief secretary (health), OMSA has expressed unhappiness for not adding family members of healthcare workers in the priority vaccination programme.
“Doctors and healthcare providers have been fighting this Covid-19 pandemic for a year and a half. Their family members are also getting exposed to the virus. Some family members of healthcare workers have died of Covid-19 as well. But the family members are yet to be considered for vaccination on priority basis,” said Narayana Rout, president of OMSA.