Telangana government to recruit 50,000 MBBS passouts as Covid warriors

HYDERABAD: The Telangana government will rope in the services of 50,000 MBBS students to treat coronavirus patients, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi responded positively to the state’s plan to vaccinate on priority, super spreaders like cab and auto drivers.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao asked officials to invite applications from thousands of medical students, highlighting that they would be awarded “weightage marks” in government jobs in future.
The CM who held a review meeting on Covid-19 scenario on Sunday called upon young doctors to come forward and serve the people during difficult times.
“They would be hired for two to three months to reduce the burden on medical and health staff working as frontline warriors during the coronavirus surge in the state,” one official said.
He instructed the medical and health officers to appoint on temporary basis doctors, nurses, lab technicians, pharmacists and other para medical staff immediately and utilise their services for the Corona treatment. These temporary employees would be paid respectable salaries.
The MBBS qualified candidates and others can apply online at https://odls.telangana.gov.in/medicalrecruitment/Home.aspx.
He also urged the qualified nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians, and paramedics to come forward and offer their services.
During the day, KCR spoke with health minister Harsh Vardhan and urged him to relax vaccination guidelines so that super spreaders like the cab and auto drivers, conductors, LPG cylinder delivery boys and daily wage workers can be vaccinated.
After the review meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to CM KCR by telephone. The PM told KCR that the union minister Harsh Vardhan briefed him about the suggestions given by the CM.
“Your suggestions are good and we will implement them. I thank you for the good suggestions,” Modi told KCR.
The CM urged Modi to supply more oxygen and Remdesivir injections to the state. Modi responded positively to the CM’s request and assured that immediate action would be taken on these requests, informed the CMO here.
The CM has also announced that a 250-bed super specialty hospital at Kakatiya Medical College premises, Warangal, and another similar 250-bed super-specialty hospital at RIMS, Adilabad be made operational immediately. He directed principal secretary (finance) Ramakrishna Rao to immediately release Rs 56 crore to the two hospitals for appointing 729 staff, including doctors, nurses, lab technicians and provide other facilities.