Rescheduled MBBS exams from June 1st week: Min Deshmukh

Nagpur: Medical education minister Amit Deshmukh on Monday said the MBBS undergraduate exams, deferred earlier this month, would be rescheduled from June first week.
During his visit to the city, he stressed on the need for more doctors and healthcare workers catering to the growing number of Covid-19 patients. He also directed officials to fill up all vacant posts of healthcare workers in the division immediately.
“The second wave in Maharashtra is four times bigger than the first one. It is obvious that all healthcare facilities are full. MVA government is making all out efforts to fight this pandemic by opening jumbo Covid centres, Covid care centres, institutional isolation centres and also encouraging mild patients for home isolation,” he said.
Elaborating on the ongoing lockdown, the minister said it had started showing effects with 15 districts showing more recoveries than new cases. “All constituents of the MVA government are unitedly fighting the pandemic. We have been continuously adding more oxygenated beds and ventilators and also increasing beds in private hospitals. Slowly, the situation is improving,” he added.
Explaining the vaccination drive, Deshmukh said chief minister Uddhav Thackeray would soon take a decision to procure vaccines from the entire world so that maximum number of citizens could be inoculated in shortest possible time. “The United States is sending its surplus vaccines and raw material to India. Maharashtra would be at the forefront in the vaccination drive,” he said.
After holding a review meeting with guardian minister Nitin Raut, GMCH and IGGHMCH deans in presence of MLA Vikas Thakre and MLC Abhijit Wanjari, the minister said Nagpur was on the path of recovery. “Remdesivir injections would be provided to serious patients and there would be no shortage. The work on starting an oxygen plant should be expedited with the grant from the collector. In view of the growing number of patients, new administrative officers and nursing staff for colleges and hospitals will be recruited soon,” he added.