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Delhi hospitals are seeing an uptick in patients coming to Out Patient Departments (OPDs) with upper respiratory tract infections, typhoid, and gastroenteritis due to the unseasonal rains and weather changes. ....
Representative image RANCHI: More than 500 doctors, including senior residents, posted across six state-run medical colleges will boycott work and have closed down out-patient department (OPD) services after their talks with the state health department failed. The doctors have said that their arrears haven’t been paid as per the seventh Pay Commission from January 2016 to March 2019. A delegation of Junior Doctors’ Association (JDA) met state health secretary K K Soan on Monday afternoon after closing OPDs. Talking to TOI, JDA president at Rims Dr Vikash Kumar said: “We have been requesting the government to pay our pending arrears, but the government isn’t interested in addressing our concerns. We are now forced to go on a strike and we will be closing down OPDs at all medical colleges.” ....
Representative image NOIDA: As the city gets ready for the second day of the vaccination drive on Friday, government and private hospital officials said they are getting scores of queries about the shots, with most being about efficacy and side-effects. Doctors attending to these queries said many senior citizens and patients with comorbidities have expressed reservations about the vaccine and want to wait for a few months before deciding to get the shots themselves. While the District Hospital at Sector 30 has more than 700 patients visiting its OPD daily, the Government Institute of Medical Sciences, Greater Noida, has about 200 people. Yatharth and Sharda hospitals get about 400 patients in each of their OPDs daily. ....