Former Union Minister and PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss on Friday urged the Tamil Nadu government to provide job quotas for sportspersons and experts in fine arts in the medical departments.In a letter to Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma. .
‘Doctors are exhausted, overworked and overexposed’
Noting that the existing workforce was exhausted, overworked and overexposed to the COVID-19 infection, the Service Doctors and Post Graduates Association (SDPGA) has urged the Health Department to increase the workforce of doctors and healthcare workers proportionate to the rise in the number of COVID-19 patients.
In a memorandum to the Health Secretary, association president P. Saminathan requested that an adequate quarantine period as in 2020 should be provided for healthcare providers five days of COVID-19 duty followed by one week of quarantine, COVID-19 testing and return to work based on the results. Proper accommodation and food should be provided for those on COVID-19 duty and quarantine as done last year.
Nurses want regularisation of services
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Those recruited through the Medical Services Recruitment Board stage protest
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Those recruited through the Medical Services Recruitment Board stage protest
Nurses recruited through the Medical Services Recruitment Board (MRB) staged a protest on Friday, demanding that the government regularise their services.
N. Subin, general secretary of the Tamil Nadu MRB Nurses’ Empowerment Association, said the State government had recruited 14,000 nurses through MRB since 2015. “Nurses are first recruited on a two-year contract on the basis of merit through an examination. The government says that the nurses will be absorbed under the regular timescale after two years, but this has not been done. Till date, only 2,000 nurses have been regularised,” he said.
Nearly 97,000 persons have been inoculated; State has received 12,34,920 doses
From February 1, the front-line workers of government departments other than health, such as police, local administration and revenue, as well as mediapersons, will receive the COVID-19 vaccines, Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar said on Friday.
“A total of 1.55 lakh persons of the Police Department, 1.07 lakh persons of the Department of Local Administration and 1.20 lakh persons of the Department of Revenue have registered themselves for the vaccination,” he told reporters. He requested the frontline workers of the Health Department to come forward to get vaccinated by then. The Department had already registered six lakh frontline workers and started vaccination on January 16.