Delhi government-run Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research had issued an order Saturday asking nursing personnel to only communicate in Hindi or English.
Don’t advise India’s doctors and hospital staff to do yoga, meditation and exercise in the middle of the second wave of Covid. They need mental healthcare.
Kerala govt’s overseas employment body alone has sent 253 nurses abroad from 1-23 Feb, over 6 times its usual monthly number. Dubai is offering Rs 2 lakh/month salary.
The 15th Finance Commission, in a first-of-its-kind stock-taking exercise in the backdrop of Covid pandemic, has put out statistics about chronic shortages in India’s health system.
Through the pandemic, nurses have been dealing with the psychological toll of demanding patients, staff crunch, quarantining every alternate week while being away from families.
Almost 21% of nurses and 17% of doctors treating cancer patients showed presence of antibodies, revealing the higher chances they have of passing it on to patients.
North MCD, which runs Kasturba Hospital, says it is yet to receive funds from Delhi's AAP govt. The Delhi govt, though, says the first instalment of funds were already released.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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