Med colleges told to train interns for Covid-19 duty

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Lucknow:29.04.2020

The district administration on Tuesday directed all government-aided and private medical colleges in the city to train MBBS interns in Covid-19 care for deployment in isolation wards as and when required.

There are eight government-aided and private medical education institutes in the city with total intern stretch of around 600. The directions were given at a meeting called by district magistrate Abhishek Prakash with representatives of private medical colleges, government-aided medical education institutes and government hospitals.

Institutes told to call back all interns

The DM said that all medical medical education institutes have been asked to call back all interns, in case they have gone home due to lockdown, for Covid-19 care training.

"Private institutes have been asked to provide list on interns in other districts and have no means to come to Lucknow. The administration will provide passes and make arrangement of buses for bringing them to Lucknow as per the requirement," he said.