Tribune News Service

Faridkot, August 19

To mitigate any further surge in Covid cases, the National Medical Commission (NMC) today issued an advisory to all medical colleges to ensure the training and certification of all health professionals, including doctors, nurses and other clinical staff, to ensure patient safety at all times.

3 Muktsar docs quit within 3 months

• Three doctors from the Muktsar Civil Hospital, which is already facing staff crunch, have resigned within a short span
• Staff said a gynaecologist had put in papers nearly three months ago, thereafter a radiologist and now an eye surgeon had sent her resignation, seeking premature retirement
• Muktsar SMO Dr Satish Kumar said: “These three doctors want to do private practice and two of them are learnt to have already started it. We are already short-staffed as 18 of the 30 posts of doctor are currently lying vacant.”

To strengthen the infrastructure for Covid training and nomination of competent trainers, the NMC secretary has written to the medical colleges to decisively and effectively address the evolving challenge from Covid-19 and ensure a robust training network to train the healthcare professionals.

More than 120 lessons across 22 modules have been identified by the NMC for the training and several of these modules are clinical in nature and need onsite training.

The skill training and verification has been envisaged at the level of Covid hospitals and similar facilities, including medical colleges, by utilising the existing resources. The NMC recommended that all skill laboratories of the medical colleges may be utilised for this purpose. All medical colleges have been advised to coordinate to conduct these trainings and set up infrastructure before August 31.