Govt cancels leaves of all health department staff
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: 21.06.2020
Delhi government has cancelled the leaves of all employees under its health department, including doctors and support staff of hospitals, as coronavirus cases in the city continue to rise rapidly. The capital has the third highest number of Covid-19 cases after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
“All MDs, dean and directors of hospitals and medical institutions under the health and family welfare department are advised to issue directions to all the staff under them who are on leave to immediately report for their duties,” a government order said. It, however, allowed the employees to take leave under the “most compelling circumstances.”
A senior doctor at Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty hospital said they are facing shortage of staff and in such a situation the hospital cannot afford to have employees taking leave.
Lok Nayak hospital has 2,000 Covid-19 beds. Only about 700 of them are full, but the authorities say they aren’t allowing any leaves because given the current crisis extra manpower needs to be available all the time.
On Friday, Delhi government had issued orders for deploying final-year postgraduate and undergraduate nursing students to manage Covid-19 patients. The decisions were taken in a meeting deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia with senior health department officials to discuss the augmentation of the ICU beds in the capital.
As most of the PG medical institutions in Delhi are affiliated with Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University, Mahesh Verma — the varsity’s vicechancellor — has been appointed for the recruitment and deployment of the required number of final-year MD/MS/DNB and nursing students.
“Verma is also authorised to recommend necessary stipend payable to the recruits,” stated the order issued by Sisodia, who is in-charge of the health department in the absence of Satyendar Jain. All recruitment will be completed in four days.
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